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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
 FIAV | Međunarodna federacija veksiloloških udrugaInternational Federation of Vexillological AssociationsLa Fédération Internationale des Associations Vexillologiques | & | Međunarodna genealoška i heraldička konfederacijaInternational Confederation of Genealogy and HeraldryLa Confédération Internationale de Généalogie et d'Héraldique |  CIGH |
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