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EARLY CHRISTIAN FRESCOES AT LOVREČINA ON THE ISLAND OF BRAČ
Jasna Jeličić Radonić
; Split, Regionalni zavod za zaštitu spomenika kulture
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Early Christian church at Lovrečina must have been completely fresco painted.Fresco remains have been discovered on the walls in the transept, baptistery and nave of this aisleless church of elaborate ground plan. The church was built in the 6th century as apart of a large monastery complex in the picturesque cove of Lovrečina, to the east of Postira on the island of Brač. Remarkably well preserved Early Christian frescoes with stucco decorations have been recently discovered in the southern arm of its transept. Here runs a continuous ornamental composition with incorporated stucco decorations under transept arches at the very entrance from the nave to the cross arm. Wall decorations reveal architectural organization. Besides fluted columns in stucco technique which give an illusion of supporting the transept arch, the walls were systematically articulated with architectural elements, such as pilasters or small columns with rhombuses between them. In the baptistery the frescoes show different architectural division of the surface.Here decorative motifs of architectural style appear in stylised and simplified form, in contrast to the elaborate geometric composition in the nave.The frescoes in the church at Lovrečina have all the characteristic features of wall paintings of architectural style typical of that period. Vertical division in fields by means of architectural elements-columns or pilasters show in the transept, are replaced in the baptistery by bands or lines which enclose rectangular fields and imitate marble incrustation.They are a classical example of imitation of marble panelling of the opus sectile technique,very popular in the Late Roman wall painting, not only in Salona and Early Christian churches on the Island of Brač (Povlja, Bol) but also in similar religious buildings in the province of Dalmatia (Ston, Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar, Gata, Srima) and in other provinces over the Empire.
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Hrčak ID:
117969
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Datum izdavanja:
10.2.1992.
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