%0 Journal Article
%T A contribution regarding to the typology of late-renaissance fireplaces
%A Kova£¿i£¿
%A Vanja
%J -
%D 2018
%X Sa£¿etak The furnishing of Dalmatian houses and palaces has mostly vanished from their former interiors. Built-in stone fireplaces were reutilised over the course of time, moved into new premises, or re-carved to be used as building material. The household fireplaces decorated with carvings, made of a stone architrave on pillars or on moulded feet, were almost as a rule disassembled and taken away over the last two centuries, and just a few rare specimens can be found in the original space. Over the architrave and the side walls, there was a hood (cappa) in the shape of a prism on which in rather luxurious interiors, allegorical scenes and the coat of arms or motto of a noble line would be painted. Documents from the commune archives of central Dalmatia take us to commissions for fireplaces that were confided to local carvers, particularly from Bra£¿ and Kor£¿ula. For example, among the elements of architectural decoration for the De£¿kovi£¿ Arbanasovi£¿ House in Omi£¿ in 1610, the carver Stjepan Bokani£¿ from Pu£¿i£¿£¿e made una nappa alla francese, 32 feet long. Mention is made of In carico e discarico de pilastri per camin while a house was being built for the poet Jeronim Kavanjin in Sutivan in 1692, and in 1698 Spesi in far camin, e la napa, cio¨¨ camin a campana. In bequests and property divisions, fireplaces were valued, along with stone cupboards, well heads and wash basins as valuable elements of interior decoration. When houses were pulled down, elements that had been worked with carving techniques were sold at auctions, and decorated fireplaces and coats of arms were particularly sought by traders in antiques and the richer bourgeoisie, and gradually vanished from these impoverished Dalmatian milieus. On the site of the Gothic and Renaissance houses close to the civic castello to the south west of Diocletian¡¯s Palace in Split, at the beginning of the 18th century, the monumental palace of the Milesi family was put up, modelled on Venetian Baroque palaces. In the interior of the palace there was one of the largest Dalmatian fireplaces, made of reddish marble of the Rosso Verona type. In the central part of the high architrave a smooth central zone with an elongated S moulding of Mannerist design stands out, emphasised by the dense moulding at the bottom and a sima at the top. The monolithic architrave has a finished corner, and special elements with the same moulding were assembled as lateral supports for the hood. In the centre of the architrave there is neither coat of arms nor ornament as there is on extant Gothic-Renaissance and mannerist fireplaces.
%K fireplaces
%K Milesi Palace
%K Split
%K Rosso Verona
%K Sebastiano Serlio
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