Ars Adriatica, No. 8, 2018.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/ars.2755
A Contribution to Late Gothic Sculpture in Rijeka:A Proposal for an Attribution to Leonardo Thanner and Unpublished Sculptural Group The Lamentation of Christ
Mario Pintarić
; Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Rijeka
Damir Tulić
; Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Rijeka
Abstract
The article discusses a late Gothic statue of Pietà in the permanent collection of the Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka. It is a wooden statue with poorly preserved traces of polychrome painting and gilding, discovered in 1920 in the attic of the parish church of Mary’s Assumption in Rijeka. Vanda Ekl dated it to the end of the third quarter of the 15th century without specifying its circle of origin or its history. Based on a stylistic analysis, as well as a series of typological and formal analogies, the Pietà of Rijeka can now be brought into connection with the woodcarver Leonardo Thannner from Bavarian Landshut, active in Friuli during the second half of the 15th century. A crucial comparative example can be found in Thanner’s polychromatic wooden group of The Lamentation of Christ from the church of Santa Maria della Fratta in San Daniele del Friuli (1488). Rijeka Lamentation, a hitherto unknown and here for the first time published statue, can be linked with a workshop or a circle of the Friulian sculptor Giovanni Martini and approximately dated to the first quarter of the 16th century.
Keywords
Pietà; late Gothic sculpture; Leonardo Thanner; 15th century; woodcarving; Rijeka; Friuli; Lamentation of Christ
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Publication date:
21.12.2018.
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