The Main Altar in the Church of the Assumption
by Jasna Dragun
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The Main Altar in the Church of the Assumption
Artist
Jasna Dragun
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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
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Church of the Assumption, known as the Duomo or Collegiate Church in Rijeka, Croatia.
The church was originally built in the early Middle Ages on the ruins of Roman baths. Master Juraj of Zadar repaired the triple-nave basilica in 1442 and elevated the main nave. It was restored and the Venetian destruction of Rijeka in 1509.
It was completely restored in 1695, and between 1716 and 1726 family of Orlando, noblemen of Kranj and patricians of Rijeka, extended the church a sanctuary which houses their graves.
The main altar is the work Mislej Workshop of Ljubljana, while the four sculptures of Simon, Anne, Margaret and Anthony works of the Padua sculptor Jacopo Contier. The ceiling of the sanctuary is decorated with high-quality baroque stucco. The eight lateral chapels house multicolored marble altars made by the Baroque sculptors Pasquale Lazzarini, Antonio Michelazzi and Sebastiano Petruzzi in the 18th century. The altars bear the painter Ivana Francis Gladić (Handing the Keys, 1640), Valentin Metzinger (St. Philip, 1753, St. Anthony, 1750), and Rijeka painter John Simonetti copied in the 19th century Titian's "Assumption "the main altar and" Sv. Ivana Baptist "for this saint's altar.
The walls inside the church was painted by the famous Italian decorative painter Augusto Pagliarini 1932 and as a motif took stucco in the church. On the initiative and at the suggestion of Andrew Louis Adamic, city architect Joseph Storm made the 1824 project for the present fa�ade, which is incorporated the Gothic-Renaissance rose window dated to 1516 year. The sculptures on the gable were set up in 1890.
Below the current floor, made in 1901, is located 75 graves mean depth of 2.5 m. The stone slabs from these tombs built into the exterior of the north wall of the church, and their inscriptions are historical evidence of the Rijeka population.
Next to the church's bell tower, detached building in the rhizome which is walled up rocks from the Roman ruins. It dates over the port gates in 1377. The belfry with its Gothic apertures, the bell tower was given at the time of restoration of the church at the end of the 15th century. The bell tower, according to measurements from 1920., tilted by 40 cm, and was nicknamed the Leaning Tower.
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December 20th, 2015
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