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342 Sektion IV: Zeremonielle Räume und die „Öffentlichkeiten“ the Monarchy as symbols of power and objects of veneration. Among the numerous examples, I would like to mention three portraits – Portrait of Charles VI (Fig. 8), Portrait of Joseph I and Portrait of Leopold I – which remained for more than 300 years in situ, in the refectory of the Capuchin monastery in Karlobag, a small town that was in the seventeenth century situated at the historical border between the Ottoman territory of Lika and Krbava and the Adriatic coast under Venetian rule. Soon after 1689, the Habsburgs under Emperor Leopold I extended their rule over that area, and both Lika and Krbava became parts of the Military March, which created fa- vourable circumstances for the restoration of religious life. In 1713, a monastery was built in Karlobag as part of the Austro-Hungarian Capuchin Province (1673–1921). The expenses were on the royal house: in the first phase, a donation was made by Joseph I, and later by Charles VI. Portraits of Leopold I, Joseph I, and Charles II as the founders, masters, and permanent owners of the Karlobag Capuchin complex, as mentioned by Josipa Alviž in her dissertation about the Capuchin artistic heritage in Croatia32, were likewise donated to the Karlobag Capuchins as reminders of their role in the town’s history. Credits of the three emperors are also mentioned in an inscription on the façade of the church dedicated to St Joseph, and as an addition to the Habsburg iconography, a crown was carved above the saint’s statue above the front door. * This work has been fully supported by the Croatian Science Foundation’s funding of the project 6827 Visual Arts and Communication of Power in the Early Modern Period (1450–1800): Historical Croatian Regions at the Crossroads of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Anmerkungen 1 Radmila Matejčić, Kako čitati grad. Rijeka jučer, danas, Rijeka 2007, 93. 2 Goroslav Oštrić, Monumenta Heraldica. Izbor iz baštine Primorsko-goranske županije, Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeka, Rijeka 2002, 57–61. 3 Matejčić, Kako čitati grad (as note 1), 92. 4 Joachim Whaley, Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, Vol. 2. From the Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich 1648–1806, New York 2012, 271–272; Hrvoje Petrić, The Naviga- tion and Trade Agreement of 1718 and Ottoman Orthodox Merchants in Croatia and the Military Border, in: Charles Ingaro/Nikola Samardžić/Jovan Pešalj (Eds.), The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718, West Lafayette (Indiana) 2011, 179–180. 5 Matija Glad/Petra Ivaniš, Via Carolina Augusta (1726–2007), in: Ceste i mostovi. Glasilo Hrvats- kog društva za ceste, 6 (2007), 104–109.