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Church in Hrastovlje — confirmed renaissance (1475)
Radovan Ivančević
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
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Referring to his article published in this journal (12-13, 1988/9) which argued that the church of Holy Trinity in Hrastovlje could not be a 13th century Romanesque, as was believed, but rather a 15th century renaissance design, probably made shortly before the frescoes by Ivan of Kastav from 1490, the author provides evidence that fully supports his conclusion: the church and its three original altars were dedicated in 1475 by the Pićan bishop Pashasius from Gračišće. The church was completed only 15 years prior to the frescoes, and not two centuries earlier as claimed by Zadnikar and other art historians after him. In the said article, after a comprehensive analysis of the monument, the author listed six points in which certain characteristics of the church were not consistent with the Istrian romanesque style (per negationem) and went on to prove that all these traits were consistent with late gothic tradition and early renaissance style: the ground plan that combines the apses built in the antique tradition (as in the Poreč cathedral: the central apse is polygonal on the outside, the side apses rectangular) and the late gothic type of court church (only four columns instead of the row of arcades in the nave), with the nave and aisles covered by a renaissance barrel vault and structurally connected by frescoed interior (illusionist painted stucco columns and capitals, large rectangular panels with the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the nave and the circular medallions depicting the Months over the aisles, and painted garlands on the arcades).
The author repeats his conclusion from 1988 that the Holy Trinity in Hrastovlje in »a synthesis of architectural space and wall painting presents an organic whole which, with certain continuity from gothic morphology, is the most complete work in the renaissance style in Istrian regional architecture of the 15th century« and, although small in size, represents the classical moment in the development of architecture and murals in the entire Istrian region«. While the frescoed church in Hrastovlje »grew organically from its regional cultural environment, it also indirectly, in the wake of more developed Istrian centers (antiquity and renaissance in Poreč and Pula), followed the major art trends of the 15th century in the Adriatic area«.
The historical fact of church dedication in 1475 provides objective evidence for expert interpretation of monuments based on structural analysis and comparative art history method.
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Hrčak ID:
148669
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2000.
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