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THE STONE TRIPTYCH AT GORNJI HUMAC, ISLAND BRAČ, A PRODUCT OF THE WORKSHOP OF GEORGE THE DALMATIN

Davor Domančić ; Split


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Abstract

The stone triptych at Gornji Humac, bearing the images of the Madonna, St. Michael, and St. Nicholas, that had lain in pieces, has recently been successfully put together by the author, on the basis of stylistic characteristics and of documents from 1645. The reconstruction of the background of the image of St. Nicholas has been executed by the workshop for restoration of works of art belonging to the Regional Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Split. Thus it has been possible to join the three reliefs into the original whole. The characteristics of the works of the sculptor George the Dalmatian are evident in the features of faces of the above mentioned images, which also bear some resemblance with the heads (executed by himself) in the frieze of the Šibenik Cathedral. The drapery of clothes with characteristic polygonal corners of folds, the thickset images with unproportionate relations between the parts of the body, and particularly the liveliness in the modelling of the archangels and the dragon’s wings seen to be his. It is evident, however, that the sculptor who created it was unable to attain the fine quality of master George’s works; owing to that one must suppose that the sculpture is the work of one of George’s assistants. By this triptych extends the master’s influence to the Brač Island, too.

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Hrčak ID:

159806

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/159806

Publication date:

23.12.1980.

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