Original scientific paper
Contribution to Research of Baroque Sacral Architecture of Podravina – Parish Church in Martijanec
Katarina Horvat-Levaj
; Institute of Art History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the rich building heritage of Podravina, a special place is secured for the parish church of St. Martin in Donji Martijanec (built in the late Baroque style in the period 1767- 1777).
It was built after a great flooding of Drava river (which damaged the medieval parish church) noted for its unique late Baroque synthesis of longitudinal and central spaces. On one hand, such spatial scheme is continuation from single traverse (four-leaf) church, which in Croatia were built by Styria architects, Josef Hoffer in particular, the builder of St.Catherine’s chapel in nearby Mali Bukovec (1757-1758). On the other hand, complexity of spatial characteristics in St.Martin’s parish church indicates that it could haven been built on the model of longitudinally centralized pijar church of St.Therese (1765-1772) in the newly formed military stronghold of Bjelovar. The pijar project is created by G. d’Ustrich; however, its characteristics put the church of St.Therese into the late Baroque Classicism sacral architecture of Vienna and Lower Austria, mostly seen in the work of Matthias Gerl. This is how an architectural intervention from Vienna, built in the Military Border territory (Varaždin generalate) contributed to late Baroque architecture of Banovina Hrvatska.
However, apart from spatial characteristics similar to Bjelovar church, Martijanec church also had important innovations in construction of the frontal bell-tower, standing on striking inner pylons. If we want to research the various influences interlinked here, we should pay attention to the most important application of such bell-tower construction in all the churches of Military Border in late 18th and early 19th century.
Keywords
Podravina; Martijanec; parish church of St. Martin; late Baroque; synthesis of longitudinal and central spaces; integrated frontal bell-tower
Hrčak ID:
78231
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Publication date:
1.11.2006.
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