Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/moxpjh1o2m
Jean d'Antoine de Vienne and the residential architecture of late fourtheenth-century Dubrovnik
Matko Matija Marušić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9208-3111
; Institute of Art History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Residential architecture of the fourteenth century is a less explored chapter of
Dubrovnik's architectural heritage. The preserved fund of monuments from the
mentioned period is negligible, and the written sources have yet to be systematically studied, like those regarding the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries. As a contribution towards gaining a complete picture of the appearance of a “house in the city” (according to the title of Nada Grujić's book published in 2013), the paper analyses the house built in the 1380s on Prijeki Street, the central communication of St. Nicholas sexterium. Contracts for the purchase of land, construction and furnishing of the house and, finally, its sale, reveal an important and for the studied period rarely documented example of a business-investment project signed by master Jean Antoine (first mention
in 1351, died in 1392). The son of immigrants from the French city of Vienne and one of the leading builders and stonemasons of his time in the Dubrovnik area, Jean built a house for the wealthy merchant Stojko Stanislavić. Based on unpublished archival sources, the text examines the design characteristics of the building, the layout of the rooms and the interior wooden equipment made by the Dubrovnik carpenter Sergol Miroslavić. The house in question is set within the broader picture of the St. Nicholas sexterium and previous knowledge about that part of the city, where representative residential architecture is not expected before the second half of the fifteenth century.
Prijeki Street, as discussed in the text, became a place of prominence for wealthy citizens decades earlier, primarily through the appearance of their houses, which were designed and furnished by leading Dubrovnik builders.
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311732
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Publication date:
20.12.2023.
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