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- Title
Renesansna kuća Moise u Cresu -- rezultati konzervatorskih istraživanja 2011. godine.
- Authors
Protić, Tea Sušanj
- Abstract
The Moise house is the largest residential building of Renaissance Cres and, through its size, it can be compared to prominent examples of large palaces in Dalmatian towns. It has not been the subject of scholarly and expert research because of its many alterations, the relatively poor preservation of its original features, and the loss of its representative appearance, all of which means that its basic characteristics remained unknown. Conservation works revealed the layout of its ground plan and established that it was conceived as an emulation of the Venetian model, with a central hall and four lateral chambers. These features set the Moise house apart from other Renaissance residential buildings at Cres as the only one which adopted and displayed the high Renaissance symmetry of ground plan, which is also reflected on the representative façade. The analysis of historical records, the building's location in the medieval centre of town and family coats of arms have contributed to its identification as the old palace of a prominent noble family of the Petris, while the analysis of the spatial organization with two residential floors and two representative courtyards established that it was designed to be used by two families, the Petris and the Moise. In its original form, the building was the most prominent example of Renaissance residential architecture at Cres. It featured a regular plan with a vaulted ground floor and unique elements such as the courtyard(s) with a porch while being decorated with stone carvings produced by the stone-cutting workshop of master Francesco Marangonich.
- Subjects
RENAISSANCE; ARCHITECTURAL sculpture; DALMATIAN art; CIVILIZATION; SCULPTURE &; architecture
- Publication
Ars Adriatica, 2014, Issue 4, p283
- ISSN
1848-1590
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15291/ars.501