Original scientific paper
The Stonecutting Workshop of Trogir and the Relieves from the St. Martha's Church of Bijaći
Nikola Jakšić
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Abstract
The paper deals with a number of pre-Romanesque relieves, some of them discovered at the locality of Stambrate near Trogir. By their stonecutting characteristics, the relieves of Stambrate are quite close to some other relieves discovered at several other nearby locations (Trogir, Malo polje of Trogir, Kljaci near Drni~), as well as some others from somewhat more distant locations of Morinj near Šibenik, Brnaze near Sinj and Padeni near Knin. The relieves made parts of altar rails, and are decorated in a specific way, the motives repeating on all architraves, arches, gables, plutei or pilasters. The author emphasizes similar artefacts in the northern Adriatic area and Rome, firmly dated at the turn of the 8 th to the 9th ct.
The paper also presents the thesis on unique approach to equipping, of the Dalmatian hexaconhoses with church fixtures (Split, Brnaze and Trogir). It is particularly treated the issue ofthe hexaconhas of Split, known as the Holy Trinity Church (Sv. Trojica), although the inscriptions discovered in and near the church (in the St. Mary's Church (Sv. Marija) at Poljud) indicate it was initially dedicated to St. Michael. Its marble altar rail could have made the model for the later altar rails in other Dalmatian hexaconhoses, made in soft limestone by the Stonecutting Workshop of
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92997
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Publication date:
22.10.1999.
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