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Hvar Belfries
Ivo Štambuk
Abstract
There are three bell towers in Hvar Town nowadays: the Franciscan Church of Our Lady of Mercy, the Cathedral Church of St. Stephen the First Martyr, and the Dominican Church of St. Mark. There was a fourth bell tower on the Church of St. Veneranda, but it was destroyed. The first to be built was the bell tower of the Church of Our lady of Mercy, and the others were constructed on the same model. A contract dating to 1507 shows that the bell tower on the Church of Our Lady of Mercy was designed by Marko Andrijić from Korčula. The building of the bell tower on Hvar Cathedral was begun in the third decade of the 16th century and finished in the middle of that century. The bell tower and the facades of the Cathedral were built by Marko Pavlović Miličić and Marko and Nikola Karlić, all from Korčula. The bell tower of St. Mark's Church was modelled on those of the Cathedral and Our Lady of Mercy, but has its own characteristic proportions which make it different. Its pinnacle is not a cupola as on Our Lady of Mercy, nor is it covered with a wooden slanted roof on four arches like the Cathedral bell tower, so its appearance was quite different. The pyramid on top of the octagonal loggias gives the bell tower great strength and beauty. The pinnacle of the bell tower on St. Mark's Church was destroyed by lightning and rebuilt according to the design by architect Alois Hauser in 1891. This study details for the first time the true measurements of Hvar's bell towers - a module which reveals their true proportions.
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129870
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Publication date:
26.11.2014.
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