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- Title
Saints' Relics in Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni: An Anti-Ottoman Pantheon.
- Authors
Marinković, Ana
- Abstract
The intensified military campaigns against the Ottomans in the second half of the fifteenth century palpably influenced the cult of saints venerated in Scuola di S. Giorgio e Trifone in Venice (also degli Schiavoni), both by assimilating new saints, as well as strengthening the existing cults through indulgences and relic acquisitions. The initial pair of patron saints - St George and St Tryphon, the city patrons of Bar and Kotor - delineated the geographical area where the majority of the initial confraternity members originated from, that is, Venetian Albania. The inclusion of St Jerome, the patron of Dalmatia, to the confraternal pantheon by Cardinal Bessarion's indulgence issued in 1464, in addition to rounding up the holy patronage to all the Eastern Adriatic Venetian dependencies, also marked the beginning of a strong anti-Ottoman motivation in the Scuola's hagiographic horizon. The triple endowment of the Scuola in 1502 - relic acquisition, granting of an indulgence, and commission of Carpaccio's monumental cycle - continued to work on the same line, and added to the practical aspect of spiritual support to the members of Venetian troops coming from the Eastern Adriatic. However, the saints whose relics are today kept in the altar of the lower hall, including the patron saint of the Republic of Dubrovnik, point to an even wider devotional agenda, possibly arranged after the Battle of Lepanto, as the comparative analysis of the reliquaries show.
- Subjects
RELICS; VENERATION of Christian saints; CHRISTIAN patron saints
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2018, p25
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/1854