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- Title
The painting owned by the Schiavoni Confraternity of Ancona and the wooden compartments with Stories of St Blaise by Giovanni Antonio da Pesaro.
- Authors
Capriotti, Giuseppe
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon related to the migration of the cult as well as the iconography of St Blaise towards the Italian Adriatic coast, due to individuals or groups of people who moved from the Dubrovnik Republic, where the saint was venerated as patron. In the paintings produced in the town between the 15th and the 8th century, St Blaise is always represented as a bishop carrying a model of the town in his hand, to show the protection offered by the saint to the Republic. Because of different reasons and patronages, the cult of St Blaise is quite spread in Italy and Europe, however, as for the Italian Adriatic coast, it was promoted by the citizens who came from Dubrovnik for business reasons, as shown by the paintings commissioned to Titian by Alvise Gozzi (Ancona, in the Marche) and to Padovanino by Nikola Radolović (Polignano a Mare, in Puglia), both Ragusans. The essay eventually aims at proposing an analysis of some wooden compartments by Giovanni Antonio da Pesaro (15th century), representing the stories of St Blaise, as a probable commission by the documented confraternity of St Blaise of Ancona, established by some Schiavoni people in the 15th century. The compartments, preserved in various museums and collections, could be the remnant panels of the documented altarpiece belonging to the chapel of the Schiavoni confraternity in the church of St Dominic.
- Subjects
BLAISE, Saint, d. ca. 316, in art; SYMBOLISM in art; CONFRATERNITIES
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2018, p187
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/1843