Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21857/y6zolb42vm

Marble Statue of St John the Baptist from the Church of St John the Baptist on the Island of Šipan

Predrag Marković ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Tomas ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

This paper focuses on the marble sculpture of St John the Baptist from the church dedicated to the same saint in the area of Šilovo Selo on the island of Šipan. Although it is an outstanding Renaissance sculptural work, it has only briefly been mentioned in scholarly literature. The sculpture stands out because of the luxurious material from which it was carved and because part of a Romanesque figurative relief was consciously preserved on its back. The intension was to indicate that the statue was created in the first half of the sixteenth century, as well as the fact that a reused marble fragment initially represented an eagle fighting a serpent from the first half of the thirteenth century. Special attention was given to the phenomenon of reused marble fragments and the conscious preservation of older artwork as an attribute of antiquity and prestige, which was also detected on
several other examples in the area of Dubrovnik and its surroundings.

Keywords

island of Šipan; Šilovo Selo; Church of St John the Baptist; sculpture; 13th century; 16th century; reused marble fragment

Hrčak ID:

324920

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/324920

Publication date:

23.12.2024.

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