Ars Adriatica, No. 4, 2014.
Original scientific paper
Goldsmiths Pavao and Stjepan Petrov of Kotor – Masters of Gothic Processional Crosses from Nin, Božava, Ugljan and Kali?
Marijana Kovačević
; Department of History of Art, University of Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
The article presents substantial and hitherto mostly unpublished archival material concerning two master goldsmiths who were active in Zadar during the late fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century. Originally from Kotor, these goldsmiths acquired considerable reputation as well as possessions through the versatility of their work over the course of several decades. The fact that both came from Kotor and shared the same patronymic taken together with the information obtained from archival records, especially those which confirm their contacts point to the possibility that they may have been brothers. This would strengthen the existing hypothesis that goldsmith Pavao Petrov made the processional cross from Božava, dated to the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, as well as the possibility that Stjepan Petrov was responsible for a similar cross now from Nin. Professor Ivo Petricioli linked cautiously the cross from Nin, signed by a master goldsmith called Stjepan, with Stjepan Crnjina, also known as Francoj, who collaborated with goldsmith Francesco da Milano, and saw it as part of a group of crosses displaying similar iconographic and stylistic features, all of which come from the island parishes across the Zadar archipelago, including the aforementioned cross from Božava. For this reason, it seems opportune to dedicate this article to the memory of professor Petricioli and mark the anniversary of his death by examining the attribution of Gothic processional crosses from the Zadar region as a theme which benefitted enormously from his scholarly contributions.
Keywords
Zadar; Kotor; fourteenth century; metalwork; processional crosses
Hrčak ID:
130727
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2014.
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