Original scientific paper
The Korčula Masters of the Sixteenth Century in Apulia
Cvito Fisković
Abstract
The artistic and cultural links between the seaboard towns of Puglia and Dalmatia in the Middle Ages have been known for quite a time. They have also been dealt with in scientific literature. Some of these works that deal with these links are mentioned in the notes contained
in the present article.
Also the Dalmatian town of Korčula maintained those ancient connections with the towns of Southern Italy in the 16th century. In the same century Korčula used to import from Puglia corn and pottery products, especially kitchen pots.
The article deals with a number of brief new documents. Korčula used to export to Puglia stone from the high-quality quarries on the same island, while some Korčula stone-masons used to go to Puglia to work there, or they would send to that place their own finished stone-mason’s products.
Among these Korčula master builders and sculptors we also find Ivan Korčulanin, who, in the middle of the 16th century, in conjunction with builder Frano from the Dalmatian town of Šibenik and his son, built a collegiate school in the South-Italian township of Mola di Bari.
The Italian history of art held the view that Ivan Korčulanin was a Greek. However, the author of the present article has proved that he was a man hailing from Korčula.
The renaissance Korčula sculptor Ludovik Maravić, well known by his works in Dubrovnik, exported in 1515 architectonic parts in stone to Barletta, while Frano Bonin, also a man from Korčula, carved columns and pillars in 1596 for the Monastery of St. Mary in the Tremiti Isles, whence Korčula imported corn in this time. Thus they continued the connections initiated by Andrija Aleši and Nikola Firentinac, who built in the second half of the 15th century the facade of the Church of St. Mary in the Tremiti Isles in renaissance style.
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244788
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Publication date:
30.6.1976.
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