In the paper, based on selected case studies from the first half of the 18th century, the functioning of the system of public building commissions in Venice is presented. In addition to the high altar in the Virgin’s pilgrimage church at Pellestrina and the Venetian church of Santa Maria della Visitiazione, the renovation of the church San Salvatore and the erection of its new altar of the Holy Cross, built for the homonymous fraternity after the plans by Giorgio Massari from 1742, are presented. The same architect made plans for several fraternities’ altars in the Gorizia region, in Friuli, Istria and Dalmatia and is therefore, comparatively, of great interest also for the Slovene territory.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36821037
The register of pre-Josephinist confraternities in Slovenian Styria is the first of its kind and therefore not yet complete or concluded. It comprises all confraternities active from the 13th century up to their abolishment in 1783, whose existence is testified to in both archival sources and in literature. According to the liturgical hierarchy of their patrons’ titles, the confraternities are sorted into eight principal groups with subgroups. The register will be of help to historians and art historians in studying confraternities and in evaluating their impact upon different fields of ecclesiastic and social life.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37724717
This article presents Franciscan confraternities in the period from the Catholic Reformation to their abolition in 1783. It covers the Slovenian part of the Croatian-Carniolan Province of the Holy Cross (the monasteries at Ljubljana, Sveta Gora, Novo mesto, Kamnik, Nazarje, and Brežice), where three confraternities were active in the majority of monasteries: the Scapular Confraternity, the Confraternity of the Cord of Saint Francis, and the Confraternity of Saint Anthony of Padua. The confraternities are presented chronologically and grouped by their titular patrons. In art, they are connected by a common iconography and by a formal relatedness of works of art, which is the result of the Franciscan woodcarving workshop and the practice of frequently engaging the same artists, especially Valentin Metzinger.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37969709