Ars Adriatica, No. 4, 2014.
Original scientific paper
The Zadar Cathedral Panels Workshop
Ivan Josipović
orcid.org/0000-0002-0113-9210
; Department of History of Art, University of Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
The article defines a number of relief carvings found at Galovac, Biograd, Zadar and Novalja on the island of Pag as belonging to a single sculptural and morphological group. It identifies them as products of the same stone-cutting workshop which the author of the article suggests be called the Zadar Cathedral panels workshop after the representative carvings of the highest quality which this workshop made for Zadar Cathedral. All of the aforementioned relief carvings from this group demonstrate features of early pre-Romanesque sculpture which are evident in the manner of carving (soft modelling, loosely arranged motifs) as well as in the fact that the prevailing decorative motifs are of early Christian origin. Taking into account the dimensions of the chancel screen panels under consideration and the sites from which they were recovered, the author of the article arrives at the conclusion that they belonged to the liturgical furnishings of large early Christian churches which were renovated in the late eighth or the early ninth century.
Keywords
The Zadar Cathedral panels workshop; early pre-Romanesque sculpture; Zadar; Biograd; Galovac; Novalja; eighth century; ninth century
Hrčak ID:
130705
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2014.
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