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Sculpture from Rudina Abbey in the European Context

Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael in Rudine near Požega is an archeological site known for more than a hundred years. The first explorations were done in 1906 and 1907 and ever since then Rudina has been explored in a stop and go manner. The archeological site consists of two basic units: the monastery with a three-aisle, three-apse church, a cloister with the accompanying monastery buildings, and a small aisleless church with a rounded apse some fifty meters to the West. Lot of architectural sculpture was found in the site, but most important finding is a total of twenty heads, out of which nineteen are brackets. This figural sculpture is in literature mainly described as rustic work without a solid link with the sculpture in the immediate area. In spite of all this, Rudina sculptures are an extremely important cultural phenomenon as the largest group of Romanesque sculptures in Continental Croatia on record. Still, this sculpture has not been studied as completely as it deserve. Although paper highlighted possibility that figural stone sculpture of a Benedictine monastery in Rudina was made by a local workshop, it also deals with the question of possible influence on that sculpture within the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen, but indirectly also within the territory of Western Europe. Special emphasis was putted on the possible ways (or media) that these influences could be adopted and on the potential connection of Western Europe and the Pannonian basin.

Rudina; medieval figural sculpture; Pannonian basin; Medieval Europe; Croatia; Romanesque art.

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