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HISTORY OF RESEARCHES AND NEW CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE OLDEST LAYER OF THE DUBROVNIK CATHEDRAL RELIQUARY
Vinicije B. Lupis
; Državni arhiv u Dubrovniku
Sažetak
The treasury of Dubrovnik was developed by systematic collecting of reliquiaries and rare valuabies during over a thousand years of its functioning as the central metropolitan treasury and the state vault. In the treasury there were kept also the state 's most valuable documents and, which is of particular importance, it constituted the treasury of valuabies of an independent state that lasted over half a millenium. Thus, the Dubrovnik Cathedral treasury made the treasury of a state in its political sense, that is, with its flag, army, finances, internal political constitution, foreign politics and diplomacy. None such institution existed in the Croatian ethnic lands, since Dubrovnik has been the only political constant of the Croatian people, with its international recognition in the contemporary political circumstances and within the frames of a communal state governed by its noble oligarchy, like several similar ones that existed at the Apennine Peninsula. In Dubrovnik, in the political ceremonili sense, the Reliquiary made a mirror of its splendour when the most valuable and the most splendid was to be shown to foreigners; furthermore, it had two basic dimensions: the cultological and the culturalogical anes. No surprise, therefore, that the Dubrovnik Reliquiary also made a poetic inspiration over many centuries. The three oldest preserved pieces of art in the Dubrovnik Reliquiary: the golden staurotheca (XX) of the 1Oth century, made in the Istanbul workshops, and the reliquiaries of St. Domicila (XC) and St. Petrunjela (CLXI) with genuine solver metal sheets of the IOth century, before acquisition of the St. Blasius head reliquiary in the first quarter oft he 11 th century, confirm the thesis of their exceptional importance. This importance results from the fact that, either having come from Istanbul or having had some imperial portraits on them, they confirm Dubrovnik as an important strategic stronghold of Byzant at the eastern Adriatic shares, where the said reliquiaries arrived as special signs of the imperial favour. The fourth piece of art discussed here: the 121h century silver tabula, is inserted in this paper because of the origin of the golden staurotheca. Translated by: D. Kečkemet
Ključne riječi
Dubrovnik; cathedral; metropolitan tresury; relics; staurotheca
Hrčak ID:
81852
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Datum izdavanja:
29.12.2005.
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