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https://doi.org/10.53745/ccp.46.91.6
Votive Painting of Pelig Carolina in the Shrine of Our Lady of Škrpjela - a Gift from the Saint's Uncle, cap. Matija Mandić
Željko Brguljan
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The author of the article analyzes a votive painting depicting the sailing ship Carolina owned by cap. Matija Mandić caught in a storm. The painting is preserved in the collection of the shrine of Our Lady of Škrpjela on the island of the same name, near Perast in Boka kotorska. The picture shows a smaller sailing ship, with two masts of the pelig type, in a battle with the foamy sea. The ship's hull is shown from the side, and the perspective reveals the events on deck. Namely, the five crew members manage to survive on the ship by holding on to the masts and ropes. While the torn sails cover the deck of the ship, the bare masts stick out eerily towards the sky, and among them, above the cloud, a stylized icon of Our Lady of Škrpjelo floats. In the lower part of the picture, on a strip of light paint, there is a note that reveals the participants and the details of the depicted event. The ship under the command of Capt. Mandić, on the night of October 19, 1852, was caught in a storm near the town of Ulcinj and was carried by the hurricane to Otranto. Later the storm took the ship all the way to Ancona, where both the ship and the crew were saved. The crew made a vow for salvation to Our Lady of Škrpjela. Therefore, Captain Mandić presented ex-voto, with a description of the event, to the shrine on the island in front of Perast, in Boka kotorska. The author of this votive painting, Trieste painter of French origin Vincenzo Poiret, masterfully conveyed the atmosphere in which a small sailing ship is left to the fury of a stormy sea. The color is rich, the atmosphere is lively and the experience of the event that the painter wanted to convey to us is complete. The information about the event, written in italics in the lower part of the picture, is detailed. The painting was attributed to the work of V. Poiret only in 1969, after the signature was discovered during the restoration in Split. It is not possible to determine whether the painter painted it only in 1860 during a visit to Boka Kotor or earlier in Trieste. Through recent research into the family roots of the Catholic saint Leopold Bogdan Mandić, a native of Herceg-Novi, the author has established the previously unknown identity of the commander and owner of the pelig ship Carolina. It was Capt. Matija Mandić, who named his sailboat after his exemplary wife - Carolina Forti. The information found about his life and activities gave us insight to the personality of Capt. Mandić, and above all revealed that the donor of the portrait of his sailing ship in the storm was also the uncle of Leopold Bogdan Mandić, a Capuchin saint from Herceg-Novi. Saint Leopold was named after his uncle Bogdan, and he inherited modesty and piety from his mother Dragica Carević, while his courage and nobility came from his mother's mother Eleonora who was countess Bujović. With his second uncle, he is bound by devotion to Our Lady of Škrpjela, the patron saint of sailors whose shrine is raised above a small rock in front of Perast, to which St. Leopold humbly made a pilgrimage, and his uncle Matija Mandić thanked her for the grace of salvation at sea with a stormy portrait of the sailing ship Carolina, which still enriches the Škrpjela collection.
Ključne riječi
Pelig Carolina; ex-voto; Cap. Matija Madnić; St. Leopold; the shrine of Our Lady of Škrpjela; Boka kotorska
Hrčak ID:
308517
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Datum izdavanja:
5.10.2023.
Posjeta: 697 *