Chapel of votive gifts at Mary’s Trsat
Naziv
Chapel of votive gifts at Mary’s Trsat
Klasifikacija prema RKD
Vrsta baštine
Valorizacija
Functional architecture in smaller dimension with point of view of maritime heritage it is important because of maritime votive collection.
Opis
A small simple chapel without stylistic features was added to the existing church of the monastery, functional for worship and display of votive gifts. The chapel contains wood-carved sculpture, silverware and other votive gifts, naive paintings that narrate a specific event, votive paintings depicting ships in a storm, tapestries, votive paintings that usually show sailors' boats in life danger from a storm, as well as models of ships made in gratitude for rescue from turbulent storms. Sailor votive paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries were made by various masters: Giovanni Luzzo, Antonio Luzzo, Vicenzo Luzzo, Michele Funno, Antoine Joseph-Ange Rouxa, Carolus Ludovicus Weyts or Basil Bartol Ivancovich. These paintings do not have a great artistic value, but are viewed as popular, civic creativity, and the basic meaning is the strongest possible description of perilous moments with a request for protection and salvation of Our Lady of Trsat, an expression of gratitude for salvation and mercy thanks to saintly intercession. Seafarers, most often masters and shipowners, who ordered and donated paintings, also expressed their social status, wealth and economic success, hard life, exposed to the strongest emotions and efforts to preserve property (ship), business reputation (cargo), but also their own life and that of their crew. Some masters ordered and donated paintings to churches several times, as a votive gift to Our Lady of Trsat in deep faith in her miraculous powers. Although often clumsily and naively executed, the colour, style and text of the votive paintings often produce emotional and psychological effects on the viewer, while artistic achievements are secondary in qualifying the paintings themselves.
