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https://doi.org/10.17018/portal.2016.4
High Altar of Split Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Technological and Chronological Analyses
Žana Matulić Bilač
orcid.org/0000-0003-3613-6009
; Hrvatski restauratorski zavod, Restauratorski odjel Split, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The multidisciplinary study of the subject originated from a conservation treatment conducted in situ from 2006 to 2011 and has developed gradually and across the board over the course of almost ten years. The initial complexity in how the existing composition of the altar was understood and interpreted has extended, in almost the same way, deep into the cathedral history, touching upon the question of the first architectural design for the sanctuary at the time the Roman mausoleum was being transformed into a church dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This long period has been reconstructed by observation and the recording of historical traces on the diverse kinds of materials in the sanctuary, the technological and chronological analyses of them, as well as by consulting published sources and works by many authors who researched individual aspects of this subject. Finally, the collected material was structured chronologically into a timeline of the altar’s construction and historical development, in the extent possible at this stage. This article is a follow up to an earlier one by the same author. The 2014 article discussed the historical development of the east niche with the altar and of the sanctuary with the wooden choir through a multidisciplinary analysis of traces on the materials. These were the starting point and basis for the research, therefore proofs for the proposed chronology of development of the ensemble. It was envisaged for the articles to together form a basis of technical and historical data that would be further questioned, redefined and supplemented with new discoveries. The research continues according to the same model, encompassing technological analyses of the wooden material, structure, carving and polychromy of the backrests of the Romanesque choir stalls that are presently located in the cathedral choir. Also under way is the research of the monumental Romanesque doors whose original phase, along with their historical alterations, is first brought into connection with the Romanesque character of the sanctuary and then, through all subsequent phases of it development, with the contemporary challenges of protection and presentation.
Ključne riječi
Split Cathedral; high altar; historical development; sanctuary; Diocletian‘s Mausoleum; niche; stipes; ciborium; wooden vault; Mateo Ponzoni; conservation treatment
Hrčak ID:
171689
URI
Datum izdavanja:
28.12.2016.
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