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A Contribution to the Study of the Church of St. Francis at Pula
Damir Demonja
orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-5137
; Institut za razvoj i međunarodne odnose (IRMO) Ljudevita Farkaša Vukotinovića 2, 10000 Zagreb
Sažetak
The main type of Franciscan churches built on the Croatian coast
up to the end of the 16th century is represented by a church having
a single nave showing roof trusses, and three vaulted quadrangular
apsides. This type was formed by the acceptance of the ground plan
type that the Franciscans brought from central Italy, and by using
traditional solutions that were already widely used, such as, for
example, a symmetrically vaulted quadrangular apse. The church
of St. Francis at Pula is the only church that features a ground
plan that was taken over directly from the origins of the Franciscan
order, i.e., from central Italy, in particular Umbria and Tuscany.
A type of church featuring a tripartite sanctuary is common in
Franciscan sacral architecture of medieval Europe. At the same
time it represents the most widely used type among Franciscan
churches of the country from where the Order emanates, Italy. On
the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea this type is represented by
the Franciscan church of St. Francis at Pula, which is truly unique
by the design of the sanctuary, and its architectural decoration.
This article gives an architectural and typological analysis of
the church of St. Francis at Pula, its representation in a certain
number of scientific and professional papers of Croatian and
foreign authors, and the Italian origins of its ground plan type.
On the basis of one of the rare typological proposals for preaching
churches in Umbria and Tuscany presented to date, we will
attempt to define in a systematically more precise manner the
ground plan and architectural type of the Franciscan church at
Pula.
Ključne riječi
church of St. Francis at Pula; Franciscan churches; ground plan type
Hrčak ID:
148087
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.11.2014.
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