On the Rector`s Award presentation, June 2nd, 1995. Rector giving the Award is Marijan Šunjić.
Ante Vranković (left) and Vjenceslav Richter on the terrace of Richter`s home in Zagreb, spring 2000.
With the newly published book "Plagiarism affair", Spring 2009.
Ante Vranković (far right) at the Croatain President`s Zoran Milanović (far left) award ceremony reception at the Presidential Palace, Zagreb, Croatia, October 25, 2023.

Ante Vranković is an independent author - art critic, member of the Croatian Freelance Artists Association since 2002.

He graduated archeology and art history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. For his graduation thesis "New perspectives on the lion crownings and the portrait of Plautilla from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb" he received the Rector's Award of the University of Zagreb in 1995.

His views on inportant Central European baroque sculptor Ivan (Johannes) Komersteiner, preliminary published in 2016., were accepted by his most prominent colleagues as early as 2017.

He is the author of one book and more than two hundred prefaces to exhibition catalogs, articles in professional journals, cultural magazines, newspapers (Život umjetnosti, Čovjek i prostor, Obavijesti Hrvatskog arheološkog društva, Glas Gradskog muzeja u Karlovcu, Hrvatska revija, Hrvatsko slovo, Matica, Croatia – putni časopis / Inflight Magazine, Euro City, Nova Akropola, Školske novine, Slobodna Dalmacija etc.), as well as in other media (radio, TV, Internet).

In september 2009 Croatian court at Stari Grad issued a verdict in which that court denied Vranković`s right to life(!). That shocking fact was officially confirmed by the Croatian Helsinki Committee (CHC) in "Slobodna Dalmacija" issued on March 31, 2012 in the text "HHO: Ante Vranković je u pravu" ("CHC: Ante Vranković is Right").

Currently he is mainly reserchung corruption ih Croatuan juditiary which is ranked on the 126th place in the world, according to the World Economic Forum. For that reason, since 2010 he is publishuing court documents as a fact-basis for his next book "Croatian Juditial Industry of Death".

He is writing for Wikipedia since August 2009.

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Milan Pelc: Ius supremi patronatus regis and the Hungarian Holy Rulers in the Liturgical Books of Zagreb’ s Bishops around 1500, Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti, 41, Zagreb, 2017., p.21