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| ID | 120257 |
|---|---|
| System Class | Bibliography |
| Bibliography | Article |
| Case Study | Beyond East and West: Sacred Landscapes Duklja and Raška |
Description
Miljenko Jurković, Prilog proučavanju pleterne skulpture na području poluotoka Pelješca, Starohrvatska posvjeta 3/13 (1983) 165–184.
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Places (2)
| Name | Class | Begin | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janjina, Church of St. George | Place | The Church of St. George is situated on a hill near Janjina, in the middle of the Pelješac Peninsula. Today in ruins it was probably built in the second half of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century as a single-nave edifice with a semicircular apse. It was built by certain Peter (Petar), whose name is written in the Latin inscription on the stone architrave on the altar screen. Arounf the Church is a Late Antique cemetery. | ||
| Ston, Church of St. Archangel Michael | Place | The Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Ston was probably erected by Prince Stefan Vojislav, the archont of the Serbs and a Terbounian Serb (reigned ca. 1037-1050), in the first half of the 11th century. The church is situated on top of the hill named Gradac and it might have served as a palace church. Its a rectangular, single-nave building, which is divided with composite pilasters into three bays (the middle one has a blind dome, while Eastern and Western have groin vaults) and a bell-tower situated on its Western side. The altar apse is semicircular inside and rectangular on the outside. The exterior is decorated with lesenes and niches, while door frames and stone window have low-relief decoration. Fresco decoration has been severely damaged but we can still recognize its iconographical programme. Certainly the most significant is the fresco decoration of the ktetor who is holding a model of the church and along with Latin inscriptions we can conclude that the paintings are of Western pre-Romanesque and Byzantine influence finished probably around 1050 (for sure until 1081). |
Artifacts (1)
| Name | Class | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ston, Church of Saint Archangel Michael, Relief Decoration | Artifact | In the Church of Saint Archangel Michael in Ston several original pieces of architectural decoration and church furnishing, dated to the 11th century, have been preserved. All openings of the Early Medieval building, that have been preserved, indicate the pre-Romanesque bas-relief style of their frames and the Early Medieval frescoes in the interior, which harmonise the composition with the arrangement of the windows. The relief decoration was made in the pre-Romanesque style (some of the researchers like Jurković and Tomas recognise two chronological layers of the sculpture). The lintel, used in a secondary function as a tombstone, is decorated with three crosses, connected to each other by a two-bar braid. The upper field has an inscription, which has been interpreted and dated differently in historiography. B. Gabričević recognised the verse in the inscription as follows: (ARCHANGELUS) MICHAELUS FORTITER SUPER SECO PACIFICOQUE OMNES ROMANOS Among the fragments of liturgical furniture the remains of the altar screen and ciborium can be recognised. |