The Croatian painter and printmaker Mirko Rački first attended a private painting school in Vienna, then the Academy in Prague from 1903 to 1905 in the class of Vlaha Bukovac and in Vienna in 1906 with William Unger. Lived in Munich from 1907 to 1914, briefly in Rome and Geneva (1915–20), from 1920 in Zagreb, and from 1980 in Split. He was a member of the Medulić group and from 1921 a member of JAZU (today HAZU). At first, he painted in the spirit of the Art Nouveau movements of Vienna and Munich, shaping his symbolist understanding, which would later remain the basis of his work. In that period, he created mainly allegorical compositions and illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy (in the translation of his patron and patron Isidor Kršnjavog), for which he became famous. In addition to several cycles of drawings, watercolors and etchings, he worked on Dante's themes in large compositions in oil. As a member of the national-romantic group, Medulić participated in its exhibitions and painted in the spirit of ideological monumentalism, which was expressed in themes from heroic folk songs. Thanks to Isidor Kršnjavog, he painted the large reading room of the old National and University Library in Zagreb with allegorical compositions (1912–13). During World War I, he participated in pro-Yugoslav exhibitions abroad, and after returning to his homeland, he retired from politics and artistic life.