Naslov
Experiment of construction - inovation in the form. The Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik and "Freedom of creation in peripheral milieu"

Autori
Marković, Predrag

Izvornik
Il Capitale culturale (2039-2362) 10 (2014); 157-175

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
St. James Cathedral in Šibenik ; Giorgio da Sebenico ; the method of the prefabricated building technique ; Niccolo di Giovanni Fiorentino ; O djelovanju domaće sredine u umjetnosti hrvatskih krajeva ; On the Effect of the Local Setting in the Art of the Regions of Croatia ; Ljubo Karaman ;
(St. James Cathedral in Šibenik ; Giorgio da Sebenico ; Niccolo di Giovanni Fiorentino ; the method of the prefabricated building technique ; On the Effect of the Local Setting in the Art of the Regions of Croatia ; Ljubo Karaman ;)

Sažetak
The Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik is the most important architectural achievement of the Renaissance on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Its exceptional structure, in many respects unusual and still enigmatic, characterized primarily by the peculiar stone barrel vaults, has long been at the centre of interest of many researchers. However, although Šibenik Cathedral has been included in overviews of the European architectural heritage published since the early 20th century, only recently has it been recognized as »una monumentale interpretazione del tema all' antica "(F. P. Fiore, 1998) Over the course of time, two questions have crystallized out as the most interesting. The first concerns the genesis of its "Venetian façade" and the second, almost inevitable, question is: what lay behind such an extremely demanding, expensive and, ultimately, risky technological experiment, which turned its back on the whole of the building practice of the past? Giorgio da Sebenico the first notable master builder of the cathedral (1441-1473), worked out a highly original uniform assembly system, using stone slabs grooved to fit into one another. This type of construction is similar to the joints used in carpentering or in shipbuilding. Bearing it in mind that such unique combination of constructive and formal approaches has never occurred again, not even in regional religious or secular architecture of smaller dimensions, we clearly have a great and so far insufficiently developed experiment in front of us. Therefore, this article will try to throw some light on the origin of these specific construction techniques and will try to show how such a technological experiment contributed to the formal innovations, namely their pure all'antica appearance. An endeavour will be made to answer these questions in the context of what has been called the "freedom of creation in a peripheral milieu" - a theoretically specified framework defined by the Croatian art historian L. Karaman (1963).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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