The altar painting that the Cattaran Fraternity of Leather-makers commissioned from the Venetian painter Girolamo da Santa Croce in the first half of the sixteenth century contains the images of Sts Bartholomew, George and Antoninus. The presence of the first two saints is looked at from the perspective of a long-established religious tradition, while the reasons for depicting the archbishop Antoninus giving alms to the poor appear to reside in the then prevailing religious policy and the local social situation
Analysis of the testamentary bequests that Kotor citizens made to the Franciscans ad pias causas between 1326 and 1337 shows that the most common type was that of pecuniary bequests for saying masses pro remedio animae. The Franciscan played a prominent role in the shaping of devotional practices of the faithful and acted as their closest helpers through performing commemorative rites for the salvation of the soul after death. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177003: Medieval heritage of the Balkans: Institutions and culture
The paper reviews the last will of the Kotor nobleman Nycolaus Marini
Glauacti made in 1327 to bequeath to St. George?s church on the small island
near Perast a depiction of the Madonna, St. Nicholas and St. John the
Baptist. On the one hand, the legacy is analyzed in the context of the
compositions involving the three saints in Kotor?s religious medieval art
and, on the other, in the context of ad pias causas bequests and the concept
of preparing for a good death (ars moriendi). The contents of the testaments
of Nycolaus and his brother Johannes Marin Glauacti as of 1336 are
contrasted, especially in terms of the number of pro remedio animae items
bequeathed and their distribution. A special emphasis is laid on the
comparison of the representations between the Franciscan and Benedictine
Orders as the recipients of pious bequests.
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