The Gallery of Fine Arts is Split's most important art museum — a collection of Croatian art from the 14th century to the present housed in a building near the Golden Gate that includes medieval Dalmatian religious paintings, Venetian-influenced Renaissance work, and the Croatian modernists who connected this Adriatic coast to European art movements. The collection provides the art-historical context for the architecture and religious art visible throughout the palace and old town.
The medieval collection includes Gothic polyptychs from Dalmatian workshops, Venetian paintings that document the centuries of Venetian rule, and the Buvina doors (a set of 13th-century carved walnut doors from the cathedral that are among the finest surviving examples of Romanesque wood carving in Croatia).
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The gallery houses Croatian art from the 14th century to present
The Buvina doors are 13th-century Romanesque wood carvings
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Kralja Tomislava 15, Split
