John of Kastav ( la, Johannes de Castua; hr, Ivan iz Kastva; sl, Janez iz Kastva) was a 15th-century

Istria Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...

n artist, a native of

Kastav Kastav (Italian: Castua) is a town in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia, built on a 365 m high hill overlooking the Kvarner Gulf in the northern part of the Adriatic coast. It is in close vicinity of Rijeka, the largest port in Croatia, and t ...

(

Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capit ...

). He painted the frescoes in the

Church of the Holy Trinity, Hrastovlje Holy Trinity Church ( sl, cerkev sv. Trojice, it, Chiesa della Santissima Trinità) is a historical building in Hrastovlje, a village in southwestern Slovenia. There are two hypotheses about its origin. According to the first, it is a Romanesque ...

, which included a famous ''

Danse Macabre The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The ''Danse Macabre'' consists of the dead, or a personification of ...

''. According to the inscription, which identifies the artist as ''magister Johannes de Castua'', the frescoes were commissioned by Tomić Vrhović, the parish priest of

Kubed Kubed (; it, Covedo) is a village in the City Municipality of Koper in the Littoral region of Slovenia. Churches The former parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Florian and there is a small chapel dedicated to Archangel Michael ...

, and completed in 1490.

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