Conference paper
STYRIA AND MEĐIMURJE IN THE RESEARCH OF ANĐELA HORVAT: MARIA ZELL IN DONJI VIDOVEC
Krešimir Juraga
Abstract
On the high altar of the parish church of St. Vid in Donji Vidovec is situated a painting of Madonna with Child by Joseph Franz Fellner, a painter from Ptuj, decorated with Angevin lilies and a series of squares with coats-of-arms and floral motives on the rim. The question of complex meanings of this exceptional painting was first opened by Anđela Horvat in the book Spomenici arhitekture i likovnih umjetnosti u Međumurju (1956). The painting was purchased for the parish church of Donji Vidovec in 1786 in Ptuj, where it was situated in the Dominican church. In its iconography, patronage and reception are interwoven political meanings of high patrons, from the origin of the original painting in the Marian shrine in Mariazell, after which the copy in Donji Vidovec was created, to the importance of the shrine and its popularity in central Europe during the Habsburg reign. The exhibition Ungarn in Mariazell – Mariazell in Ungarn. Geshichte und Erinnerung (2004.) warned about the exceptional popularity and political role of this Marian shrine. The intention of this article is to renew the attention toward this excellent work of art located in a parish church in Međimurje, as well as point out the contribution of the research of Anđela Horvat to the recognition of relations between the artistic and cultural legacies of Styria and Međimurje.
Keywords
Donji Vidovec; Maria Zell; Anđela Horvat
Hrčak ID:
97787
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Publication date:
25.9.2012.
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