Questioned is the hirtherto interpretation of the relief of the dragon devouring a man carved on a stone in the vestibule of Cmurek castle. The hitherto identification of the motif as “allegory of Anger” is not correct, since Anger was presented in the Middle Ages in very different ways. The relief is more closely related to the images of the dragon devouring a man which can frequently be found in Romanesque architectural sculpture and can be understood in the sense of the fight against evil or a warning that a deserved punishment will befall an unjust and impiuos person.
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The paper treats two spheres of art, i.e. stage and visual arts, that were creatively united in the time of Baroque. In 1708, a play was staged by the students of the Ljubljana Jesuit College, which was an important stimulus for the introduction of the Nepomuk cult in the Slovene lands and of visual depictions of the Saint’s life. Among the clients who commissioned such works were exactly former Jesuit students, while the Lichtenberg family, who erected a chapel of St. John of Nepomuk at Tuštanj Castle, expressed the symbolic connection between their name and the iconography of the Saint.
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