Abstract
The paper discusses the quest for the national identity of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia in the field of religious/memorial architecture. It compares the concept of the Vidovdan (St Vitus Day) Temple authored by the sculptor Ivan Mestrovic and the design for the Church of St Sava by the architects Bogdan Nestorovic and Aleksandar Deroko, and examines their underlying ideas as well as the factors leading to their (not) being realised. The comparison of these two completely different architectural approaches to visual expression provides the opportunity to shed light on the attempts to construct a unified national identity of the interwar country.
Highlights
The paper discusses the quest for the national identity of the Kingdom
It compares the concept of the Vidovdan
Temple authored by the sculptor Ivan Meštrović
Summary
The paper discusses the quest for the national identity of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia in the field of religious/memorial architecture. Видовдански храм Идеја о Косовском храму, који први пут опросторава косовски мит, родила се код Мештровића још 1905, односно 1908.
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