Gregorio di Lorenzo and Other Renaissance Craftsmen in Senj and its Surrounding Area

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The paper discusses Renaissance sculpture in the town of Senj, Vinodol’s castles Bribir and Hreljin as well as Baška on the island of Krk. It analyses the reliefs which belong to the circle of the socalled Buda – Tuscan Renaissance, extremely prevalent in Senj and its surrounding area throughout the last decades of the 15th century. Emphasis is put on the case of the emergence of nobility’s heraldic reliefs associated with the town of Senj and preserved in Baška. The case is interpreted in context of generally pronounced presence of citizens of Senj in a settlement on the eastern part of the island of Krk whose territory spreads across the sea passage called the Gates of Senj. According to the material remains as well as the written sources, that presence grew even in the first decades of Venetian administration over the island of Krk. The causes of this lesser-known phenomenon are sought. Oeuvres of individual craftsmen, stone reliefs’ authors active in the area in the last decades of the 15th century, are enriched and distinguished.