The literature of the 20th century was filled with diverse literary tendencies, and like a crown of the Croatian national literature corpus, Ranko Marinković’s Cyclops was written in 1965. It thematizes the frequently used theme of war as an insurmountable evil before which the average person feels fear, hopelessness and which causes him to sink both emotionally and physically. In presenting the environment of the pre-war metropolis and its society Marinković skilfully made use of his rich general knowledge. He combined the basic event-line with references to humanistic and natural science fields, from which the focus in this paper is placed on intermediate connections with fine arts. This connection can be traced back to ancient times, and it is especially present in Croatian literature in the 20th century novels, so in almost every work, from existentialist novels to jeans prose novels, some allusion to the history of art can be found. It is expected that the functions of these citations are not equal, both between different novels and within each individual work. Based on that, the various and scattered intermedial citations are systematized and divided into individual fields within the art history field. Marinković’s novel is certainly an eternal inspiration and an inexhaustible source for study thanks to its densely filled content.