Original scientific paper

Late-Gothic Stove Tiles from Garić – grad

Ivana Škiljan orcid.org/0000-0001-7953-5347 ; Museums of Hrvatsko zagorje - Veliki Tabor Castle, Desinić, Croatia

Abstract

The paper presents the results of the visual clay and glaze analysis carried out on restored stove tiles and pieces safe-kept at the Museum of Moslavina in Kutina; these results indicate that for the making of all the analysed stove tiles, which were synchronously made, the same casts and two types of clay were used. The stove tiles of Garić grad are divided into twenty various types and compared with analogue finds of stove tiles originating from the area divided into the so-called western and eastern region of the stove-making production. Stove tiles with full decorative front plates have relief ornaments – presentations as found in bestiaries, mediaeval literary descriptions of monsters and animals. When comparing the illuminations in the subject manuscripts with the presentations on stove tiles, all the motives used and their symbolics may be unmistakably recognised. Further, when considering the motives on the front plates and comparing them with analogue material, the influence of the stove-making products from workshops dating from the era of Sigismund of Luxemburg (the first half of the 15th ct.) may be recognised.

Keywords

stove tiles; late Gothic; Garić grad; mediaeval bestiaries; iconographic analysis

Hrčak ID:

77003

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/77003

Publication date:

30.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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