Projects / Programmes
The Culture of Glagoljaši and Slovenian Art
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.06.00 |
Humanities |
Culturology |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H000 |
Humanities |
|
| H310 |
Humanities |
Art history |
glagoljaši, culture, history, art, religion
Researchers (2)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
11871 |
PhD Tanja Mastnak |
Humanities |
Researcher |
2004 - 2007 |
95 |
| 2. |
03168 |
PhD Jurij Mikuž |
Art history |
Head |
2004 - 2007 |
550 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Glagoljaši where catholic priests that celebrated the mass in Slavic language and used the glagolitic script. They become overtly critical towards the corruption which menaced Catholicism with the big schism, with the simony, with the violations of the religious vows, with the prescriptions of unjust and illegal taxes and others. The connections of the Dalmatian coast with Italy and its growing humanism contributes to the development of critical ideas, predicting already those of the Reformation; that is why the major part of Glagoljaši converts in Protestantism.The weakness of the Catholicism brings them also to Slovenian regions. They were accompanied by the artists that often decorated the churches where Glagoljaši celebrated the mass. The research has to be done to prove how the culture of Glagoljaši was in fact, how it expressed itself and how fare we can speak about their visual art, while perhaps their role of sponsors is even more important. From the sources we have to find out how broad was the circle of artists that realized the illuminations of their manuscripts, the frescoes and other orders for the small succursal churches and chapels. The hypothesis that has to be proven by comparative materials is that they were artistically educated and rather informed of Italian culture, civilization and visual art but in their forms of expression, they have never surpassed the primitive and decorative level of folk imagerie. Their esthetics is therefore simple, their motifs repetitive, their subject matter all butsophisticated, and the realizations clumsy and naive. But in spite of all this facts, one can suppose their participation in conception and realization of some very important achievement of Slovenian visual art of this period -obviously not from esthetics but from the anthropologic point of view - which until now has not been yet interpreted sufficiently.
