Original scientific paper
SPIRIT OF MODERNISM AND NEW LITURGICAL CURRENTS ACCORDING TO THE EXAMPLE OF CHURCH OF LADY OF HEALTH IN SPLIT
Zorana SOKOL GOJNIK
Abstract
History of Franciscan activity in Dobri, quarter of Split, begins in the eighteenth century. At that time group of Franciscans, running from the Ottomans, came to Split and settled in a hired house. From the beginning this group tried to fi nd a proper location for church and organize sacral service. Author of this article delivers a history of this organization and building of ecclesiastical objects, from the time of the fi rst church (1731), across the foundation of the second (1771), till the fi nal construction that was built according to the plans of Lavoslav Horvat in 1937. Regarding the latter, one has to bear in mind that this was a time of the modern understandings of the sacral space. Though principles of the Council of Trento are still valid regarding the church building, one can notice that the projects of that time refl ect new liturgical conceptions, which fi nally were acknowledged at the Second Vatican Council in 1964. Liturgical movement Quickborn from the 20s of the twentieth century assembled many infl uential theologians together with architects (Rudolph Schwartz and Dominicus Bohm). They accordingly tried to redefi ne meaning of the sacral service, and sacral space. At the beginning of the twentieth century these attempts, which included radical abandonment of traditional patterns, human perspective, integrity of the space, geometrical order, stylish simplicity, reductional aesthetics and emphasized spirituality, were revolutionary. All these intentions can be noted in the aforementioned
work of Horvat. In the second part of the article author examines concrete infl uence of the spirit of modernism in the realm of sacral architecture. In the chapter about Horvat’s project author explains all the modern infl uences on the architect’s work. Moreover, author
delivers all Horvat’s projects for the church of the Lady of Health, emphasizing that in the last project one can notice spiritual modernism and new liturgical currents.
Keywords
Sacral architecture; liturgy; modernism; ecclesiastical history; Split; history of art
Hrčak ID:
22625
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Publication date:
25.6.2007.
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