hrvatski

Crkva Sv. Petra u Dubrovniku

The concert hall of the Music School in Dubrovnik was originally part of the church of St Peter the Great which throughout the centuries went through several reconstructions and changed several titularies. Towards the end of the fourteenth century it was incorporated into a Clarist convent, named after the SS Apostles and radically reconstructed for the occasion. The church and convent were seriously damaged in the earthquake in 1667. The convent burned down and some of the church walls crumbled. The church was demolished and rebuilt as the church of St Catherine of Siena. In 1808 the Clarists were dissolved by a French occupation forces and the church was turned into a grammar school. In the course of the nineteenth century the church was again thoroughly remodeled, its Baroque height was used to insert a whole new story to which another story was added on top. After the earthquake in 1979 it was remodeled once again, and is now the concert hall of the "Luka Sorkočević" music school. On the basis of archaeological finds, especially the stone elements and decoration of the Pre-Romanesque phase of the church, the author has reconstructed the original structure of St Peter's. He has also reconstructed the stone furnishings, altar screen and ciborium. Originally the church was built on a rectangular plan, with an apse that was rectangular on the outside and semi-circular on the inside. The vault was supported by four columns placed at the centre of the church. An ellypsoid dome surmounted the central part of the church. The shape of an inscribed cross was visible on the vaults. The church had a vaulted narthex. In the extension of the nave two pilasters supported the prothesis and diaconicon which had lower ceilings. The church also had a crypt whose vaults were supported by four columns. The apse of the crypt was semicircular on the inside. The crypt was inserted in the space created by a sharp declivity in the ground on the north side ; it raised the height of the presbyterium by three steps. On top of everything was a three-part altar screen. The square arrangement of the crypt columns formed the foundation of the ciborium of which the columns and numerous fragments of the dome survive. Four monolythic square columns decorated with interlace ornaments which supported the church vault have been preserved almost in their entirety. The church was of the domed type with a transept inscribed in the vaulting. The type of church was known in Byzantium in the ninth century. St Peter's church was equipped with a large number of high-quality interlace sculpture made by urban masters.

Hrvatska; Dubrovnik; Sv. Petar

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