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St Peter at Novo Mesto Zelinsko - New Iconography for Claiming Political Continuity

This paper analyses the changes that followed the arival of new beneficiaries at the church of St Peter. At first it was a part of a Templar estate on the Lands of St Martin. With the abolition of the Templar order most of the Templars joined the Hospitallers. Upon their takeover of the church, the existing architecture was used as a medium for the expression of the new owner’s ideas mostly through the legend of St Ladislas represented on the north nave wall. The architecture and architectural sculpture were retained as a framework for the display of the ideas of the new owners closely cooperating with the new rulers of the country and their interests. The church, built with one purpose in mind, was reused for a new ideological and artistic display – from the Romanesque to the Gothic, from the plain (or plain decorative) to figurative representation, from the Templars to the Hospitallers, from the Arpadian to the Angevins.

Croatia; Novo Mesto Zelinsko; St Ladislas; Romanesque art; Templars; Hospitallers; Angevins

Paper was presented in June 2010 in Motovun, on international conference "Spolia in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Ideology, Aesthetics and Artistic Practice". Some notes and conclusions are added, according to the theme of IKON.