Sibenik / Sibenic / Sebenico / Šibenik / Sibenska

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angel or putto - 3

Scene Description: the mid-15thC sculpture by the cathedral builder now serving as base of the font; the basin may have been originally a stoup basin, the pair of one which still survives

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leonid Maximenkov, 2002

Image Source: courtesy of Leonid Maximenkov

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of Sept. 26, 2002)

symbol - pentacle

Scene Description: [NB: not known on which font, or where on the font [cf. FontNotes]]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Conveyance, 2011

Image Source: digital image 28 February 2011 by Conveyance [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sibenik_pentacle.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katedrala svetog Jakova u Šibeniku,Šibensko-kninska županija, Hrvatska - sjeveroistočna strana".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Silverije, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2017 by Silverije [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Šibenik,_Katedrala_sv._Jakova_-_sjeveroistok.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kathedrale des hl. Jakob in Šibenik (1431–1536). Baumeister: Giorgio da Sebenico (kroat.: Juraj Dalmatinac) und Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino (kroat.: Nikola Firentinac)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © SchiDD, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by SchiDD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HR-Sibenik-Kathedrale-01.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © SchiDD, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by SchiDD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HR-Sibenik-Kathedrale-12.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © SchiDD, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2017 by SchiDD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HR-Sibenik-Kathedrale-15.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: the composite font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JoJan, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2015 by JoJan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_St._Jacob_(35).JPG] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the composite font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jerzy Strzelecki, [2008?]

Image Source: digital photograph take [in 2008?] by Jerzy Strzelecki [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptistery,_Cathedral_of_St._James,_Sibenik7_(js).jpg] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: NB: the basin of the present composite font may have belonged originally to the pair of this stoup

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JoJan, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2015 by JoJan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_St._Jacob_(22).JPG] [accessed 1 January 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06072SIB
Church/Chapel: Katedrala sv. Jakova
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Trg Republike Hrvatske 1, 22000, Šibenik, Croatia
Country Name: Croatia
Location: Šibensko-Kninska Županija
Directions to Site: Located off the E65, 50 km NW of Split, on the Adriatic
Ecclesiastic Region: Šibenska biskupija / Dioecesis Sebenicensis
Historical Region: Dalmatia
Font Location in Church: In the baptistery, inside the church?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?) [base only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church Notes: The 15th-century cathedral od Sibenik -built by Juraj Dalmatinac, aka Giorgio Orsini, Georgius Mattei Dalmaticus- was shelled in 1991 by Serbian forces; not known whether or not the font was affected
The present font appears to be a composite object: a shallow round basin raised on a re-cycled statue by the builder of the cathedral here, Juraj Dalmatinac, aka Giorgio Orsini, Georgius Mattei Dalmaticus; the basin appears to be have belonged originally to a large holy-water stoup, the pair of which still survives; the font is located in the baptistery. Biedermann (1994: 262) illustrates a marble relief containing a pentacle motif inside a braided circle; there is a six-petal flower in the centre of the pentacle; there is a bird (dove?) in each of four of the spaces between the points of the star, and one flower in the fifth; the whole is framed in a square shape that has foliage in the spandrels. The image is a drawing that appears identical to another that is labelled as an image in the "Baptistory [sic] of St. John at Split in Yugoslavia [...] dated from the eleventh century" [this last reference is found in article on "The Pentagram", in the Freemasonry web site of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon]. [NB: no image of this font or symbol available - see Images area for a later composite font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.735661, 15.889147
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 44′ 8.38″ N, 15° 53′ 20.93″ E
UTM: 33T 571602 4842898

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble / breccia

REFERENCES

Biedermann, Hans, Dictionary of Symbolism: Cultural Icons and the Meanings behind Them, New York: Meridian, 1994
Devetak, Vojko, The Cathedral of Sibenik, Sibenik: Biskupski ordinarijat, 1980