Ars Adriatica, No. 13, 2023.
Book review
https://doi.org/10.15291/ars.4355
Lepuri near Benkovac: From Early Christian to Pre-Romanesque Sculpture
Dora Sesar
orcid.org/0009-0001-4914-182X
Abstract
The book Lepuri near Benkovac by Ivan Josipović focuses on one of the largest pre-Romanesque sites discovered in Dalmatia after World War II. The author has carried out a stylistic-morphological analysis and established analogies with previously identified stonemasonry workshops of the 9th century, documenting and cataloguing a significant number of early Christian and pre-Romanesque fragments of architectural decoration and liturgical installation. Such an extensive body of documented fragments found near the church of St Martin in Lepuri brings new knowledge about Croatian pre-Romanesque sculpture, the activity of 9th-century stonemasonry workshops, as well as their historical and social context and the events that occurred in that area from prehistory to the present day.
Keywords
Lepuri near Benkovac; pre-Romanesque sculpture; early medieval stonemasonry workshops; Stonemasonry Workshop from the Time of Duke Trpimir; Stonemasonry Workshop at the Court of Duke Branimir; Benedictine Stonemasonry Workshop from the Time of Duke Branimir
Hrčak ID:
312830
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2023.
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