The article discusses three paintings by Franz Ignaz Flurer (Augsburg, 1688–Graz, 1742), one of the leading Styrian artists in the first half of the 18th century. The paintings in the main altar of St. Peter's church in Malečnik, Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter and Conversion of Saul, were painted in 1737 for the ambitious and theologically educated parish priest Johann Baptist Sittich. In the article the painting of Christ, delivering the keys to St. Peter is accurately analysed, which by including the depiction of St. Michael and heavenly Jerusalem complements the pictorial tradition a great deal, as well as the Conversion of Saul after Rubens and The Fourteen Holy Helpers. The latter was the motive for the thorough research, as it was, when chosen for the exhibition How to Identify and Understand the Depicted – Subjects of Works of Art from Maribor, unattributed and insufficiently studied.
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The paper by Polona Vidmar on the palace of Hermann Baron Gödel Lannoy discusses the architecture and inner furnishings of the most important historicist palace in Maribor, which has hitherto not been comprehensively researched. The buildings on the western part of the city centre gained their present-day appearance in the 19th century. The paper focuses on baron Hermann as a commissioner who in furnishing his palace followed the examples of palaces in Venice and Trieste. Until its renovation in the 1950s for the purposes of Maribor Art Galery, the palace furnishings included the most exquisit collection of historicist furniture in Maribor and an important painting collection.
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Branko Kocmut (1921–2006), the leading architect in Maribor in the second half of 20th century, used horizontal line as the main artistic element. Only now and then he decided to make a vertical emphasis in a space in a form of an obelisk. In such a way he realised some monuments to the fallen participants of the national war of liberation. The paper deals with Kocmut’s arrangement of the tomb of the fighters of the company of Slovenske gorice at the old Ptuj cemetery (1956), with the obelisk in Mostje by Ptuj (1959) and with two obelisks in Maribor: the memorials in front of the entrance of the Faculty of Education (1979) and in Volkmer passage (1975).
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