Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.21857/mzvkpt32e9
Four Paintings Depicting the Old Testament's King David from the Diocese Seminary in Dubrovnik
Ante Raguž
; samostalni istraživač
Sažetak
This article analyses four paintings by an unknown artist depicting scenes from the life of King David in the Old Testament, dating probably from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, today kept in the storage unit of the Dubrovnik Diocese.
In the early years of the twentieth century, the paintings were the property of the noblewoman Malvina Dorotka von Ehrenwall, née Bonda, who sold them to Bishop Josip Marčelić, which he eventually donated to the Seminary.
Analysis has shown that the paintings Saul throws his spear at David, David mourns for Saul and Jonathan and Saul pursues David in the wilderness have been executed after the copper engravings of Aegidius Sadeler II (1579-1629), which are based on the drawings of Maerten de Vos. For the painting David and Goliath the author, however, leaned on several prints, among which those of Ugo da Carpi and Cornelis Massijs can be recognised, as well as an unknown author after a drawing by Maarten van Heemskerck.
Considerable resemblance with the painting Adoration of the Magi, exhibited in the Bishop's Palace in Dubrovnik and attributed to Petar Mattei by Radoslav Tomić, points to the possibility that the mentioned painter might also be the author of the
four paintings depicitng the motifs from the life of King David.
Ključne riječi
Dubrovnik Diocese; King David; prints; Aegidius Sadeler II; Maerten de Vos; Bonda family; Petar Mattei
Hrčak ID:
337503
URI
Datum izdavanja:
5.11.2025.
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