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Discussing the Structure and Functions of the Holy Trinity Court Chapel in Brinje
Drago Miletić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6310-0680
; Društvo konzervatora Hrvatske, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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Discussing the Structure and Functions of the Holy Trinity Court Chapel in Brinje
The Brinje court chapel has been introduced in literature as early as the first half of the 19th century (Franjo Julije Fras, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski) and has continued to be featured in the 20thand early 21st century in a series of articles and art-historical surveys. Authors ranging from Gjuro Szabo to Milan Pelc have emphasized two important characteristics of the Brinje chapel - that it had three storeys (three floor levels) and a defensive function.
The Princes of Krk had built their seat on the Sokolac hill in Brinje in the first half of the 14th century at the latest, as attested by records written in Brinje in 1343. In the early 15th century, following his engagement to Doroteja Gorjanski in 1405, the Prince of Krk Nikola IV constructed a building adjacent to the defensive wall on the east. Its ground floor was designated as a service facility and the first floor as a religious one, wherefore it was originally a storey building. After the Military Frontier had taken over Sokolac from the Frankopan Princes and incorporated it into the system of anti-Ottoman fortresses, the military garrison carried out a series of interventions to increase the defensive power of the former feudal town. It was only at this time that Nikola’s building, which had also been housing the chapel, acquired its modest defensive function. Among a series of minor alterations, the garrison built eight large openings in the attic, to be used as an observation post. The characteristics of the openings either did not allow for, or did largely restrict the defensive function, whereas the access to the attic was improvised in a typically military manner. Given that according to definition, a storey is a horizontal part of a building, comprising a space between two successive bearing floor structures, it is utterly erroneous to correlate the attic with the two remaining storeys. The ultimate conclusion is that the chapel was a storey building, with the ground floor used as a service facility. The originally Gothic chapel had no defensive function of any kind.
Ključne riječi
Brinje; Sokolac; Holy Trinity Court Chapel; Got-hic style; 15th century; the Princes of Krk; Nikola IV Frankopan
Hrčak ID:
122552
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Datum izdavanja:
20.12.2013.
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