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https://doi.org/10.32728/h2019.03
Does the portrait of a man dated to late Antiquity originate from Tarsatica? Once more on the issue of provenance of Roman monuments from the holdings of the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka and the Laval Nugent collection
Palma Karković Takalić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8178-0189
; Sveučilište u Rijeci
Kerol Rabar
orcid.org/0000-0002-9884-357X
; Kršan
Sažetak
This paper discusses the provenance of the male portrait from late Antiquity, the only example of Roman portrait sculpture in the collection of the Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeka (Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka, PPMHP). In order to determine the origin of the portrait, a brief overview of the history of the museum is given. The Museum was founded after the union of two previous institutions: Museo civico (City Museum) Fiume and Gradski muzej (City Museum) Sušak in 1948. Both museums have moved several times since they have been founded, Museo civico in 1893 and Gradski muzej Sušak in 1933, but they were united within the Governor’s Palace in 1948. Therefore, it is not surprising that lots of information about first acquisitions of these two museums (the place of origin, name of the donor, etc.) are now lost. In addition, Gradski muzej Sušak and PPMHP ʻinheritedʼ objects from the Museum Nugent which was founded in 1843 by marshal Laval Nugent von Westmeath (1777-1862). He financed archaeological excavations in Italian Minturno and he was buying antique and other works of art of the North Adriatic provenance so most of his collection was of Roman origin. After his death, one part of his collection was sold to the todayʼs Arheološki muzej (Archaeological Museum) in Zagreb. Consequently, Ante Rendić-Miočević considers that the late portrait head from Rijeka was part of the Nugent collection, and that after Nugent’s Roman statues were sold to Zagreb, it was the only one left in Rijeka. The analysis and comparison of all known lists of Nugentʼs ancient monuments, such as those of E. Wolff, B. Biasoletti, R. Schneider and J. Brunšmid, reveal that our portrait from late Antiquity was not registered. Therefore, the results of this study indicate that the statue could be related to Tarsatica, considering the intense development of that city during the late Antiquity.
Ključne riječi
Tarsatica; Trsat; Laval Nugent; Minturnae; Minturno; Mijat Sabljar; Josip Brunšmid; Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka; Museo civico Fiume
Hrčak ID:
244058
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2019.
Posjeta: 1.194 *