Original scientific paper
Cultural links of Dubrovnik and Dubrovnik region with hispano-american world
Vinicije B. Lupis
; Institut za društvena istraživanja Ivo Pilar, Područni ured Dubrovnik
Abstract
Cultural links of Dubrovnik and Dubrovnik region (including the Gulf of Kotor and the island of Korčula) with the Pyrenean peninsula were intense for centuries, and so also the economic and political ties. Cultural links have been rarely written about. The activity of the painter and musician Juan Boschetus at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century went unnoticed. This study has paid a special attention to the painting entitled Ecce Homo by the Spanish mannerist painter Luis de Morales, dating to the 1660ies. The painting was a gift by the Sephardic Jew, Dr. Leon Pardo in 1896, verified by a note of donation, to the Franciscan Monastery of St. Klara in Kotor. According to archival material Vicko Bratutić of Dubrovnik, the royal translator for Turkish language, left in his will made in Madrid in 1682, a golden necklace received as a gift from the King as a contribution to the building of the new Dubrovnik Cathedral. We have also presented the Spanish wooden crucifi xion from Žuljana on Pelješac, donated by the Ston Bishop Augustin Flavije Macedonić in 1681. A thorough review of the movable cultural goods of the Dubrovnik region has enabled us to present Spanish Baroque prints, and the painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe from the chapel of the Mexican Empress Charlotte Von Habsburg, today in Dubrovnik Cathedral. This should be an incentive for future systematic exploration of cultural ties with hispano-american world.
Keywords
Luis de Morales; Ecce Homo, graphics; Lady of Guadalupe; jewelry
Hrčak ID:
148040
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2007.
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