This essay examines the positioning of the Schiavoni, i.e. Illyrians/ Croats, within Roma communis patria in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through papal commissions of architecture and painting related to the church of San... more
This essay examines the positioning of the Schiavoni, i.e. Illyrians/ Croats, within Roma communis patria in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through papal commissions of architecture and painting related to the church of San Girolamo degli Schiavoni. It assesses the gestures made by Nicholas V and Sixtus V towards this particular ethnic group against the background of papal foreign policy and the Papacy’s approach to the urban problems of Rome, and explores the promotion of the cults of national saints. The disentanglement of the group’s dynamics and its interplay with the Curia not only sheds light on the minute mechanisms of artistic and architectural patronage as they relate to 'national' churches, but also redefines the approach to identity issues often understood as exclusively powered by 'national' forces.
Saggio sulle prime fasi costruttive della rifondazione cinquecentesca della chiesa abbaziale di San Martino delle Scale, sviluppato sulla scorta di documenti inediti che attestano l'intervento di maestranze lombarde nel cantiere... more
Saggio sulle prime fasi costruttive della rifondazione cinquecentesca della chiesa abbaziale di San Martino delle Scale, sviluppato sulla scorta di documenti inediti che attestano l'intervento di maestranze lombarde nel cantiere benedettino siciliano.
Sklop rimske crkve danas poznate kao San Girolamo dei Croati i okolnih građevina jedno je od najaktivnijih čvorišta interpretacija i generiranja povijesnih narativa koji su definirali nacionalnu bratovštinu čiji su članovi potjecali iz... more
Sklop rimske crkve danas poznate kao San Girolamo dei Croati i okolnih građevina jedno je od najaktivnijih čvorišta interpretacija i generiranja povijesnih narativa koji su definirali nacionalnu bratovštinu čiji su članovi potjecali iz hrvatskih povijesnih zemalja i susjednih pokrajina. Već sam statut bratovštine, kao i niz kurijalnih dokumenata koji su regulirali njezino djelovanje, predstavljaju skup odrednica jedne od ranonovjovjekovnih ‘natio’ kozmopolitskog Rima postridentskog razdoblja. Analiza likovnih fenomena, odnosno aktera izgradnje crkve i programa zidnih slika izvedenih tijekom kampanje ukrašavanja svetišta i transepta pod vodstvom Giovannija Guerre, koje je financirao papa Siksto V Perreti, doprinijet će stoga poznavanju skjavonsko/ilirske nacionalne ranonovovjekovne vizije iz rimske perspektive.
The complex of the Roman church known today as San Girolamo dei Croati and its surrounding buildings is one of the most attractive nodes of interpretation and production of historical narratives that defined the national fraternity whose members originated from Croatian historical lands and their neighbouring provinces. The statute of the fraternity, as well as a string of curial documents which regulated its functioning, already represented a set of markings typical for an early modern “natio” of the cosmopolitan Rome of the post-Tridentine era. Therefore, the analysis of artistic phenomena, as well as of the individuals who partook in the construction of the church and the execution of the set of wall paintings, created by the project of embellishing the chancel and the transept headed by Giovanni Guerra and financed by Pope Sixtus V Perreti, will contribute to our knowledge of the vision of the Early Modern Schiavone/Illyrian nation as it was seen from the Roman viewpoint.
