1st Edition

Figural Sculpture in Eleventh-Century Dalmatia and Croatia Patronage, Architectural Context, History

By Magdalena Skoblar Copyright 2017
240 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is the first full-length, English-language study of eleventh-century figural sculpture produced in Dalmatia and Croatia. Challenging the dependency on stylistic analysis in previous scholarship, Magdalena Skoblar contextualises the visual presence of these relief carvings in their local communities, focusing on five critical sites. Alongside an examination of architectural setting and... Read more
Introduction

1. Urban Oligarchs: Panels and Patronage in the Church of the Holy Dominica at Zadar



2. The Church of St Lawrence and the Platea Comunis at Zadar



3. Royal Patronage in the Church of St Mary at Biskupija



4. The Rule of Law: The Church of SS Peter and Moses at Solin



5. Regina and her Screen: The Church of St Michael on the Island of Koločep



Conclusion

Biography

Magdalena Skoblar is a Research Associate of the University of York and a Research Fellow of the British School at Rome.

"The text is nicely written and supplemented with relevant black-and-white images and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The book thus makes accessible to a wider audience the visual material and also existing scholarship, most of which circulates in non-Western European languages. Finally, the case study approach offers a model that could be emulated in future investigations of little-known works, sites, and cultures."

--Speculum