In fl uences of Artistic Styles in the Croatian Folk Art

This article discusses the formats of the infl uences of European artistic styles which have left a trail in Croatian folk art. The term folk art used here was established in the beginning of the 20th century through the selection of ethnographic items according to urban aesthetical criteria, which presented the rural visual art opus. It starts by naming visual art elements included in the ethnographic material, which point to Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo style infl uences. Two different items are specially analyzed; the female folk costume from Pag, as an example of well-preserved Renaissance infl uences and the so-called Dalmatian chest (a sub-group of Adriatic type) as an example of the intertwining of different artistic styles and other cultural infl uences in the past.