Golf Park Dubrovnik - DalCasa

shop had many assistants and students, the artists ofthe different parts of the portal parts have never beendetermined. However, it is certain that the main partswere made by four pairs of hands, of which Radovan’sis the most distinguished one and by far the best. Heis most certainly the artist of the signed lunette, theAnnunciation scene, the Worship of Kings, the twoinlets with angels in the interior arch, the symbols ofDecember, January, March and April, and the pillarswith the hunting scenes and lions on the portal sides.- There is beauty in it all. Not the beauty that arisesfrom elegance, but beauty that recognizes that theelegance is only a crack through which the idea ofgood shines. This idea itself motivated Radovan tocarve the portal.When a man passes through these “Gates of Heaven”,he is actually initiated since there are scenes ofbirth and death, life and death, blessing and killingaround him. Because of this idea, one enters thesegates with the same meditation as people in 13th century.Simply because the idea of good is timeless, it canbe continued, shaped, changed and, in the end, makeus noble again - says Robert Jakovljević, an expert forbranding cities who has been dealing with Trogir’s phenomenaand its central point for long time.This universal point in the center of the town – amuseum surrounded by the blue sea and immersedin the warm Mediterranean climate, this noble ideais probably what turns an ordinary visit into spiritualexperience.As if by magic, the eternal and ingenious work ofMaster Radovan transforms real beauty completelysilently into something invisible, something that aperson must feel.In the reliefs of the portal MasterRadovan combined the life ofChrist from His birth to His death,Adam and Eve, allegories of themonths, the Apostles and saints,as well as hunting scenes andanimal characters. Even thoughthe majority of the motifs had beendetermined iconographically, thehand of Radovan allowed itself tointerpret various Biblical scenesand characters freely and moresimply and therefore brought themcloser to the common man.