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Project code: 6-02-105


CULTURAL HERITAGE OF ISTRIA FROM IV TO XV CENTURY - ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE


Main researcher: FISKOVIĆ, IGOR (12040)


Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/95.
Papers on project (total): 208
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 3
Institution name: Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Zagreb (20)
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Summary: Researching and making the corps of monuments of Istria from 4th to 15th century, architectonic photographs about 450 churches, documentation and photographic documentation about 2000 fragments of sculpture, making typological and morphologycal tables considering types and chronology. Comparative researching of materials of the neighbouring Italian shore and Dalmatia. Synthesis materials considering levels and species: regionalism in Istria, art connections between neighbouring regions. Istrain contribution in developing styles in wide context.

Keywords: Istria, sacral architecture, liturgical sculpture, morphology, early Christian, pre-romanesque, romanesque, gothic, typology.

Research goals: The goal of the project is to bring to the highest degree of elaboration, and to publish a material about medieval Histrian architecture and sculpture. It means to bring to a unique system of research a sparse, but very important heritage of the otherwise neglected Croatian area. During the whole procedure, special attention is being paid to representation of regional characteristics in the succession of the styles and periods. Presentation of the influences that could be located through the comparative studies of the resources in the neighbouring, even more distant areas with which there have been cultural and artistic contacts all through the period in question, are almost of the same importance. That should be a method to build up a integrate picture of the situation, that would give a horizontal survey, a time table, of the monuments that have been elaborated, and, at the same time, a vertical span of types and motifs of the artistic activity, as they are diffused through the microareas of the narrower as well as the broader space of the region. Expected results are: 1. Establishing of the architectural and sculptural corpus from the 4th to the 15th century 2. publishing of the synthetic results of the research where the material would be organized by the types of the monuments and by the styles/periods, The accent should be put on inadequately elaborated segments of the early Croatian and early Romanesque heritage. 3. solution of the specific regional problems: a) influence of the neighbouring centers as Aquileia, and Grado, Ravenna and Cividale, on the art of Histria, and vice versa. b) roman liturgy in the Croatia and acceptance of the pre-Romanesque style through the influence of Italy and Carl the Great c) northern and southern spheres of influence in the period of late middle ages 4. within the frame of Croatian artistic heritage there is to be expected more accurate establishing of the influence of Histria's pre-Romanesque architecture on early Croatian architecture in Dalmatia, as well as the role of Histria in the process of diffusion of pre-Romanesque style through the Adriatic. 5. It is also to be expected that a rich Histrian heritage, especially late antique and early middle ages, will help us to clear out some problems concerning Carolingian period in northern Italy and southern Switzerland.

COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: CENTRE LENAIN DE TILLEMONT DE RECHERCHES POUR LE CHRISTIANISME ANCIEN ET L'ANTIQUITE TARDIVE, CNRS, UNIVERSITE PARIS IV - SORBONNE
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of experts
    City: PARIZ, FRANCUSKA

  2. Name of institution: UNIVERSITA DI PADOVA, ISTITUTO PER LA STORIA DELLE ARTE VISIVA E DELLA MUSICA, PADOVA
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Occasional exchange of experts
    City: PADOVA, ITALIJA

  3. Name of institution: UNIVERSITA DI UDINE, FACOLTA DI LETTERE
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: UDINE, ITALIJA

  4. Name of institution: MEĐUNARODNI ISTRAŽIVAČKI CENTAR ZA KASNU ANTIKU I SREDNJI VIJEK, MEĐUNARODNO SREDIŠTE HRVATSKIH SVEUČILIŠTA ISTRA
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint publishing of scientific papers
    City: MOTOVUN, HRVATSKA

  5. Name of institution: CENTRO DI RICERCHE STORICHE
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Other
    City: 52210 - ROVINJ, HRVATSKA
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