Predromanički plutej iz Kali na otoku Ugljanu.
During the reconstruction of the late medieval church of St Peregrine above Kali on the island of Ugljan in 2007 and 2008, an early medieval stone slab was found, formerly used as the altar table. Its decoration consists of two complex, interlaced motifs made of concentric, three-ribbon circles, dia...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Institute of Art History Vol. 37; pp. 23 - 37 |
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Radovi Instituta za Povijest Umjetnosti
2013
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| Sumario: | During the reconstruction of the late medieval church of St Peregrine above Kali on the island of Ugljan in 2007 and 2008, an early medieval stone slab was found, formerly used as the altar table. Its decoration consists of two complex, interlaced motifs made of concentric, three-ribbon circles, diagonally intersected by smaller geometric motifs and filled with images of birds, a motif that is present in ten more plutei found in various localities in the Eastern Adriatic. Its visual and morphological features identify it beyond doubt as work of the Master of the Koljane Pluteus, a stonemason whose production had previously been found in only three localities within the territory of the early medieval Duchy of Croatia (Koljane, Biskupija-Crkvina, and Galovac) and never in any Dalmatian cities or Eastern Adriatic islands. Owing to this reason, as well as the fact that it is an isolated finding discovered in a late medieval sacral building that reveals no signs of previous constructions, we suspect that the pluteus of Kali does not originate from this locality or from the island of Ugljan, but came to St Peregrine’s church from another, nearby locality that in the 9th century was within the borders of the Duchy of Croatia, and which reveals other traces of activity of the Master of the Koljane Pluteus. Crkvine in Galovac near Zadar, where remnants of St Bartholomew’s church have been discovered, which in the Middle Ages was located within the old Croatian village of Tršci, is the only locality that is relatively close to Kali and also meets all the above-mentioned requirements. Besides, according to the archival materials, at the time when St Peregrine’s church was being constructed (in the late 14th century), a nobleman from the Zadulin family of Zadar had a large estate in Tršci, while at approximately the same time another member of the family financed the construction of the church in Kali with a rather large sum appointed to that purpose in his last will. The authors have therefore concluded that it was at that time, through the noble family of Zadulin, that the stone pluteus was transferred from the village of Tršci in the hinterland of Zadar to Kali on the island of Ugljan, in order to be built into the altar of the newly constructed votive church of St Peregrine. Since the stone slab in St Peregrine’s church could not have originally, in St Bartholomew’s church in Tršci, served as the pluteus of its pre-Romanesque altar railing because of its small dimensions, and since its size, thickness, and form, as well as some technical details and its iconography, also make it impossible that it was the ambon parapet or the altar antependium, it has been cautiously proposed that it may have been the parapet slab of the baptistery standing under the six-sided baptistery ciborium. The ciborium itself has been reconstructed on the basis of a large number of fragments that originally belonged to it, and have been found during several archaeological excavations carried out in the 20th century on the locality of Crkvine in Galovac. By identifying the slab of Kali as a relief made by the Master of the Koljane Pluteus while the church of St Bartholomew in Tršci was being equipped with pre-Romanesque liturgical furniture, the authors have enriched the known opus of that master with yet another pluteus, of a decorative scheme that has not been previously observed either in his work or in any other relief found on the territory of the early medieval Croatian state. By establishing its Galovac origins, the authors have once more confirmed the well-known fact that, when reaching conclusions about the origin of individual pre-Romanesque reliefs, one should proceed with great caution even when the locality of their discovery is known. Prilikom obnove kasnosrednjovjekovne crkve sv. Pelegrina iznad mjesta Kali na otoku Ugljanu tijekom 2007. i 2008. godine pronađen je ranosrednjovjekovni kameni plutej koji je bio upotrijebljen kao menza njezina oltara. Način klesanja pluteja upućuje na zaključak da je riječ o djelu predromaničke klesarske produkcije koja je nazvana Majstorom koljanskog pluteja, a čije je djelovanje zasad uočeno tek na nekoliko lokaliteta unutar teritorija ranosrednjovjekovne hrvatske kneževine. Uzimajući u obzir da djelovanje navedenog majstora do sada nije utvrđeno na području nekadašnje Bizantske Dalmacije i da zasad nisu ustanovljeni nikakvi tragovi neke ranije faze crkve sv. Pelegrina, te na temelju više objavljenih arhivskih podataka iz posljednje četvrtine 14. stoljeća, autori iznose pretpostavku o izvornom podrijetlu pluteja, razlozima i okolnostima njegova dospijeća u navedenu crkvu te o njegovoj mogućoj izvornoj funkciji. |
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