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A Tabernacle by Giovanni Bonzza in Fažana, Istria

On the main altar in the parish church of Sts Cosmas and Damian there is a marble tabernacle that, because of its quality and sculptural invention, stands out in the interior otherwise lacking baroque altars and plastic. The style and typology of the sculpture decorating this tabernacle are remarkably close to the forms and manners specific for the workshop of Giovanni Bonazza (Venice 1654 – Padua 1736). It demonstrates rather suggestive formal analogy with the sculpture of the infant Christ held by the Virgin by the same master, formerly in the Church of St Gimigniano in Venice, today in Villa Pisani in Str&agrave ; ; . The same is true for the infant Christ held by St Anthony of Padua from the Basilica del Santo and the high relief, or rather the representation of a putto, in the allegory of Time on the Memorial monument to Silvestro Venier in the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. It is quite probable that such remarkable piece, as the tabernacle by Giovanni Bonazza, arrived to the parish church of the small fishermen’ s village only in the later date. The personality that might have had something to do with the acquisition of this tabernacle could be identified in Gaetano Gresler, a painter that moved from Venice to Vodnjan, situated only few kilometres away from Fažana.

Giovanni Bonazza; Fažana (Istria); tabernacle; Venetian marble sculpture; 18th century

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