The Library of the Institute for History of Art is a specialized professional library closed to the general public. Founded in 1969, its holdings comprise over 13,000 books, over 700 various journals, and over 1,500 offprints. New titles are acquired through purchase, exchange, or donations.
Ana Deanović Archives
After the death of Ana Deanović in 1989, her husband, Živan Deanović gave a great part of her professional legacy to the Institute for safekeeping and further study. It mainly consists of unpublished materials produced during Ana Deanović's professional career, as well as of a significant part of her library.
The unpublished materials have been preserved in their original form. They comprise 167 files of drafts for published works, various notes, sketches, architectural documentation, photographs, postcards, etc. A summary list has been made for each file. The library consists of 671 units (books, catalogs, journals, offprints) accompanied by the alphabetical catalog.
Grgo Gamulin Archives
Professor Grgo Gamulin left hundreds of manuscrpits (most of them published), written in hand or typed, on art problems of a broad temporal and spatial scope. It covers practically the whole of Europe, particularly Italy, as well as Croatia, from the Early Renaissance to the present. His articles, studies, essays, monographs, and reviews deal with numerous Croatian and foreign painters, sculptors, naive artists, attributive problems regarding old masters, theoretical problems, synthesize the Croatian painting and sculpture of the 19th and the 20th century, etc. In addition to manuscripts, Gamulin left many photographs used in the scientific analyses of the works he had studied.
The Institute's catalog collection has been expanded by a valuable donation of the Gamulin family containing over 2000 catalogs of exhibitions staged after 1945 in Croatia and abroad. Special offprints from domestic and foreign journals (over 400), as well as certain annual files of journals (Mogućnosti, Dometi, Dubrovački horizonti, Književna smotra, Izraz, Republika, Revija Osijek, Forum, Umetnost, Prilozi za povijest umjetnosti etc.) are a significant contribution to the Institute library. We do not know the definitive number of volumes, as the donation has not yet been completed.
Ljubo Karaman Archives
Having received the donation of Ljubo Karaman back in 1972, the Institute was entrusted with the legacy of the outstanding scholar and practician of the disciplines of art history. This extensive collection registered as «Karaman Archives» holds most of the private library, with an impressive total of publications regarding general and national historiography (90 books, 243 volumes of periodicals), history of art and archaeology (209 books, 673 articles). The collection holds all Karaman's published works, syntheses, studies, and essays (221), newspaper articles (176), manuscripts (127 published ones, 29 unpublished, 3 incomplete), professional correspondence and photo-documentation, personal documents and photographs, audio recordings (7 tapes), newspaper articles on life (32) and work (54) of Ljubo Karaman. Under the Contract on the donation of the archives, its heirs retain the copyright, renouncing the claim of any sort of compensation for the use of materials. The Institute has been entrusted with the archives for scientific purposes. It has assumed the right and the obligation to set the terms of its proper use and protection.
This fine collection is a sort of a data base for the study of Karaman's achievements, as well as a starting point for the study and research of various segments of national heritage of monuments.