Original scientific paper
Life story of a renaissance statue
Igor Fisković
; HAZU
Abstract
The stone statue of St. Peter on the front facade of the little church in Vrboska on the island of Hvar, was by several art historians connected to the circle of the leading artist of Dalmatian quattrocento Nikola Ivanov of Florence. In a separate study, I initiated the revalorization of the statue attributing it directly to that excellent master craftsman, dating it around 1470, the same period as he lived on the island. I still persist on it by the analysis of all the qualities of its unique features thus deepening the problem of the relationship between a renaissance artist and his apprentices or followers who imitated his work, all the while impotent to vary his formal expression. At the same time, I try to overview the destiny of the statue, which as a whole could be called “the case”. Namely, at the exhibition “1000 years of Croatian sculpture”, I noticed that its head was not the original one, but that it was made by another master craftsman who obviously replaced the original which he held, broken, in his hands. This intervention, rather, restitution, was established during restoration, so, I attempted to elaborate. I’m of the belief that the statue was damaged during an incursion of Turks on the island of Hvar in 1571, and that his new head was sculpted by Tripun Bokanić who was working on the island at the beginning of the 17th century. Having noted the inferior reproduction of the same statue on the altar raised, in Tugare close to Split, by Petar –Pavao Brutapelle who was working on the island of Hvar at the transition from the 18th to the 19th century, I caution of local figural additions of marble altars from the Baroque workshops in Venice, as well as of the appearance of specific imitations within the larger period of the century, then were known up to now.
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63997
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Publication date:
30.5.2009.
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