Category: Publications

Monograph by Ž. Heimer on Milan Sunko

Vijenac 791 Fine Arts CROATIAN HERALDIC ARTIST MILAN SUNKO (1860‒1891) RIPPED FROM OBLIVION A world-renowned heraldic painter By Mislav Grgić and Željko Heimer Although some of Milan Sunko’s works are preserved in Zagreb museums and galleries, he is known only to connoisseurs of lesser-known painters. A recently published monograph sheds light on his exceptional contributions […]

Handbook for Students “Croatian Heraldic Heritage I. – Selected Topics”

Edited and prepared by Prof. emer. dr. h. c. Mirjana Matijević Sokol and associate professor Dr. Tomislav Galović, Croatian Heraldic Heritage I. – Selected Topics, is a historiographically relevant and well-structured selection of texts on Croatian heraldic heritage created by the work of sixteen authors. The work covers 362 pages and is equipped with an […]

»Grb i zastava« № 34 Issued

The № 34 of »Grb i zastava« was printed, in its Volume XVII, soon to be posted to subscriber addresses. Additional copies of the GiZ you may order from Leykam International. We copy here from the »Editorial«: Dear Reader, An editor is considered lucky if the hardest task he has is to write the editorial. […]

Ćus Rukonić Book Promotion in Rijeka

After the presentation in Cres and Mali Lošinj last month, Jasminka Ćus Rukonić’s monograph “heraldic Heritage of the Cres-Lošinj Islands” was presented in Rijeka on 6 July 2023. The presentation was held in the beautiful Marble Hall, the so-called The Governor’s Palace, or the Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral, Rijeka. At the […]

Catalog of the Collection of Flags and signal Flags of the Croatian Maritime Museum Split

The Flags from Stern, Mast and Bow catalog deals with the Collection of flags and signal flags, being among the most numerous collections of the Croatian Maritime Museum Split in terms of the number of artifacts, more precisely it numbers 298 objects. These were mostly inherited from the maritime museums that existed in Split from […]

On Great Croatian Heraldic Artist Milan Sunko

An original scientific paper by Dr. Željko Heimer, president of the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association (HGZD) and the International Federation of Vexillological Associations (FIAV) as we as the Master of Ceremonies and Herold – Chief of the Draconian Heraldic Office of the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon was issued in the latest number […]

HGZD Donated GiZ Set for a New Vexillological Library in Catalonia

ICV29 Ljubljana: Herreros and Heimer

During a break between lectures on 12 July 2022 at the 29th International Congress of Vexillology in Ljubljana 2022, Sebastià Herreros, secretary of the Catalan Vexillological Assocation (ACV) handed the FIAV president a letter from the mayor of the Catalan town of Sant Clement de Llobregat, informing the world vexillological community about the renovated library […]

New Book on Flags of Rijeka

After several years of studying, publishing several scholarly papers, and participating a few international conferences with the topic as well as giving a few public lectures in Rijeka, HGZD president Željko Heimer unified his research of the city flag and various other flags used and still in use in the city on the Riječina river. […]

New Book – Jareb: From Checkerboard to Tricolor

Mario Jareb’s monograph From Checkerboard to Tricolor: Development and Use of the Croatian Coat of Arms and Flag Throughout the Centuries was recently published in two editions – Croatian and English. It provides a concise but scientifically based review of the history of the Croatian coat of arms and flag—a compendium of all the important […]

Commemorative Book of the 170th Anniversary of Croatian Tricolor Issued

Four years ago, four national institutions engaged in the research and preservation of the national symbolic heritage, each in its own way: the Croatian Historical Museum (HPM), the Croatian Institute of History (HIP), the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Society (HGZD) and the Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon (DBHZ) declared 5 June as the […]