Original scientific paper
Fate of the Rector’s Palace in Šibenik during the Decline of the Venetian Republic
Darka Bilić
; Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Centar Cvito Fisković, Split
Abstract
During the second half of the 18th century Venice was bombarded by petitions in which the Venetian public administrators, camerlenghi and castellani of Dalmatian cities pleaded for the restoration of their palaces. The residences of the Venetian administrators in Dalmatia were in decline, but as their petitions often remained unanswered, the Rectors moved into private mansions for which they paid rent. The rent money was reimbursed by the State only after the state engineer had written a report and the cost estimate of the repairs. In the last two decades of the 18th century, Venice often sent requests to its engineers to make estimates of the value of these palaces along with the cost estimate for the repairs. Owing to the derelict condition of many of these buildings, the cost of necessary repairs was often higher than their actual value. This was the case with the Rector’s Palace in Šibenik. This text offers an analysis of numerous as yet unpublished documents from the Archives of the Republic in Venice, which reveal the vicissitudes of the rectors’ palace in Šibenik in the second half of the 18th century. One of them is the report of the engineer Francesco Cicavo made in 1784, after he visited the building, and the report of the engineer Frano Zavoreo made in 1788, which includes his project of the palace’s conversion to another purpose along with the drawings of the building he made during his visit.
Keywords
Šibenik; The Rector’s Palace; Frane Zavoreo; Provveditore generale; engineer; Francesco Cicavo; Republic of Venice
Hrčak ID:
134143
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Publication date:
5.3.2014.
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