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St. Vitus Cathedral, Rijeka

1638–1659 ; 1725 Religious architecture, an Early Baroque central octagonal church with side chapels and dome Designer: Giacomo Briano (1589–1649) ; builder and carver: Francesco Oliviera ; master builder: Bartol Winterleiter [n.d.] ; gallery extension: Bernardin Martinuzzi [n.d.] ; painter: Valentin Metzinger (1699–1759) ; sculptors: Pasquale Lazzarini (1667–1731), Antonio Michelazzi (? –1772) Today the Cathedral, once the Jesuit Church of St. Vitus in Rijeka, is the only Baroque Jesuit central-plan church in Croatia. Its spatial organisation, accomplished in 1638, is characterised by a regular octagon originally surmounted by a high dome and surrounded with oval chapels, an architectural solution influenced by the famous Italian architects, Andrea Palladio and Baldassare Longhena. The entire oeuvre of the designer Giacomo Briano, however, suggests even older origins related to his work in the framework of Renaissance Florence, suggested by the two colours used in the articulation of the interior: dark-grey marble pillars and arches in front of white walls. The church obtained its Baroque stamp only with the building of the gallery above the chapels in 1725, and with the execution of a new dome at a higher level.

Early Baroque; Jesuit central-plan church

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