Original scientific paper
Our Lady of Srima and “the beginnings of Croatian art”
Vladimir Peter Goss
; University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
In his exceptional book Naša stara vjera (Our Old Religion), Radoslav Katičić pointed out the phenomena of religious dual faith among Slavs. Pluralism in religious tradition implies belonging to several culture circles. In their new homeland, the Croats found a conglomerate of local antique traditions, as well as remnants of the antique urban culture, to which they added their own tradition of the non-urban world. This was the basis for the development of art in Croatian territories during the pre-Romanesque period, which has continued to this day. We have a number of splendid examples: pre-Romanesque architecture and masonry, the art of communes in Central Dalmatia and Pannonia Savia in the 13th century, the art of the Dubrovnik Republic in the 15th and 16th centuries, the rural Baroque in northern Croatia, the urban renewal of Zagreb in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Croatian naive art. In this context, this paper reflects on a detail of the ploughman on the Romanesque wall painting of Our Lady in Srima as a valuable contribution of the local community, and compares it with some similar works in the northern Adriatic, while underscoring the importance of analogies in the diachronic, and not only the synchronic sense.
Keywords
Croatia, Croatian art; Srima; Romanesque; Romanesque painting; Istrian frescoes;
Hrčak ID:
258544
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Publication date:
1.6.2021.
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