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| ID | 120258 |
|---|---|
| System Class | Bibliography |
| Bibliography | Article |
| Case Study | Beyond East and West: Sacred Landscapes Duklja and Raška |
Description
Miljenko Jurković, Prilog odredjivanju južnodalmatinske grupe predromaničke skulpture, Starohrvatska posvjeta15 (1985) 183–199.
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Places (2)
| Name | Class | Begin | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Island of Lokrum, Church and Monastery of St. Mary | Place | The Benedictine Monastery of St. Mary was erected in 1023, while the original Church of St. Mary may date or perhaps pre-date the above mentioned year. The original appearance of the complex and the stylistic affiliation of the Early Medieval buildings are not known. Of the Early Medieval Monastery and Church, only four fragments of the lintel and frame of the opening are known, built into the existing assembly, which have not been thoroughly examined. At the end of 12th or early 13th century, a three-apse Romanesque church of St. Mary was built on the same site. In 1958, the complex was reorganized into the Biological Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. | ||
| 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. |