Welcome to the pages of the Center for Iconographic Studies!

CIS was founded in 2010 as an academic center at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Rijeka.

CIS promotes iconography and iconology within the interdisciplinary approach to the visual arts. The goals of the Center are research and presentation of the approaches in the methodology of the interpretation of the works of art as well as promotion of the iconography within the graduate and post-graduate curricula.

Center’s activities: organization of the annual Conference of iconographic studies, publication of IKON – journal of iconographic studies, organization of lectures, workshops and symposia, international networking, research projects, doctoral theses etc.