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STIPANČIĆ HERMITAGE OVER MURVICA ON BRAČ ISLAND
Vanja Kovačić
; Konzervatorski odjel Ministarstva kulture u Splitu
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Stipančić Hermitage was founded on the southern slopes of the island of Brač in the second half of the 15th century underneath a prominent cliff called Hib, between Bol and Murvica. From as early as the mid-15th century on sheltered spaces high over the sea the first hermitages were founded in this space by priests from Poljica and Split. In addition to the hermitages in Zmajeva špilja (or Dragonjina špilja) and Dračeva Luka, hermitages were founded in Silvio Monastery, Dutić and Stipančić.
Stipančić was inhabited by Franciscan tertiaries, picokaras, pious women who belonged to a hermit community, having chosen a dedicated life distant from people and settlements, who made over all their assets to the hermitage. The little church is consecrated to the Nativity of the B. V. M. and SS. Cosmas and Damian, and the year 1477 was belatedly carved into a plaque on the facade of the church.
A steep walking path led from Murvica to the Stipančić Hermitage, protected from south and east by a wide dry stone wall. The dwellings are built in a series, abutting onto solid rock and following the contour lines. The basic distribution of the buildings starts on the west with a church and graveyard. After that come, in order, a cistern with terrace, two storey houses in a row, a single storey utility building, a bread oven and pens for livestock enclosed with dry stone walls.
The Stipančić Hermitage assemblage has particular environmental features and reveals the cultural and monumental importance of the place in the unique landscape of mountain cliffs beneath Vidova gora. The hermitage is part of a wider system of hermit dwellings that are on the whole abandoned and in ruins, except for Blaca Hermitage, which is in good condition complete with its interior. Unlike Blaca Hermitage and, once, Dračeva Luka, which in size and appointments achieved a high lifestyle in the 19th century, Stipančić Hermitage reflects the modest manner of living and economy appropriate to the vocation of the tertiaries.
The sequence of buildings extends along one contour with its facades on the sunward side. All the requirements of life are modestly arranged from the church, oriented to Zmajeva špilja, to living and working spaces with the bread oven on the other side.
Stipančić Hermitage is bounded with dry stone mounds that protect the whole complex, including the former gardens on terraces below the hermitage. A zone of dry stone walls surrounds this little living nucleus of the tertiaries, which developed out of the experience of building in rural settings. This, the smallest assemblage of the string of hermitages around Murvica, is characterised by a favourable location and choice of site considering the harshness of the nature, simplicity of form and material, as well as complete harmonisation with the landscape.
Ključne riječi
Brač; hermitage; rural architecture
Hrčak ID:
130835
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Datum izdavanja:
17.12.2014.
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