Architects at the service of the Republic of Ragusa from 1667 to 1808 and their impact on the art of building in the city of Dubrovnik

Ruso, Anita. (2016). Architects at the service of the Republic of Ragusa from 1667 to 1808 and their impact on the art of building in the city of Dubrovnik. PhD Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Art History.
(Međunarodni dvojni doktorat znanosti (Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu i École Pratique des Hautes Études)) [mentor Frommel, Sabine and Gudelj, Jasenka].

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Abstract

After the earthquake that struck the region of the Republic of Ragusa in 1667, Dubrovnik (formerly Ragusa), its main city, experienced a strong architectural immigration of Roman origins (and in only one case, Venetian). After attempting to trace the history of artistic and diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ragusa and the authorities of different states of the Apennine peninsula which reached their peak after the great earthquake of 1667, this study examines the role of foreign architects in the context of public administration of the Republic of Ragusa and the influence they had on the architecture of the city. Although the architects did not have their formal office within public institutions, the usual behavior of the Senate of the Republic in the process of recruitment of foreign architects shows us that same patterns of cooperation between architects and sponsor were repeated over the centuries. Therefore, we use them as strong evidences that show a stable and traditional system, which remained unchanged until the end of the Republic in 1808. In this research, the focus was on the representative architecture of the city of Ragusa and on all building sites which were under the control of the Republic. Finally, artistic migrations between Rome and Ragusa in the second half of seicento and during settecento were compared with the same phenomenon that took place between the city of Valletta in Malta and Rome and between the region Val di Noto in Sicily and Rome.

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