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New fragments of the Ambo from Guran. A Contribution to the opus of the "Master of the Capitals from Bale"
Miljenko Jurković
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za povijest umjetnosti
Iva Marić
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za povijest umjetnosti
Ivan Basić
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za povijest umjetnosti
Sažetak
Three fragments of an ambo, found during the recent Swiss-Croatian campaigns of archaeological research of the three-aisled basilica in Guran near Vodnjan, can be added to the plaques of the ambo that were found during archaeological excavations from 1936 to 1958. Two of the recently found fragments belong to the front, and one to the back side of the ambo. The reconstruction of the ambo from Guran, together with the liturgical installations from the churches in Dvigrad, Šijana, St. Thomas near Rovinj and Novigrad belong to the opus of the early-Carolingian workshop of the so-called »Master of the Capitals from Bale«. The workshop was responsible for the execution of the capitals of the colonnade of the church of Sv. Marija Velika near Bale (but also other architectural sculpture – capitals, impost-capitals, transennas etc.) from the period of construction of the church. The main characteristic of the workshop is rather loose disposition of decorative elements and »soft« carving. These characteristics can be seen not only on a number of fragments of liturgical installations from the church of Sv. Marija Velika, but also in a few contemporary Istrian churches, all built in the early period of Carolingian expansion at the territory of Istria. Fine and soft modelling, loose and airy disposition of elements and the choice of characteristic motifs such as knotted half-circles and rhomboids, the motif of rope (used on the capitals), all belong to the specific repertoire of this workshop that is applied also on the ambo from Guran. Two doves in profi le with characteristically pronounced claws and a rounded line connecting their neck and belly that are represented on the ambo can also be seen (together with the motif of rope and the same knotted half-circles) on an impost of a biphora from Bale. The fact that the motif is found on an element of architectural sculpture indicates that the same master (workshop) was also employed on the construction of the church. What seems to be particularly interesting is that all of the mentioned localities on which the work of the »Master (Workshop) from Bale« was found belong to the most important Carolingian strongholds at the territory of Istrian peninsula.
Ključne riječi
Istra; Guran; ambo; liturgic furniture; Pre-Romanesque; "Majstor of Bale Capitals"
Hrčak ID:
147931
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2007.
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