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The bell tower of Zadar (Italian: Zara) Cathedral is the only architectural realization of the prominent English historicist architect Thomas Graham Jackson in Croatia. The ground and the first floor of the bell tower were built in the 15. century and later on covered with a wooden roof construction that protected the bells. The iniciative to complete the bell tower of the cathedral was started by archbishop Giuseppe Godeassi in 1861 and followed by his successor Pietro Domnio Maupas in 1863. The first, today lost and unrealized plans for the completion were accomplished by the Zadar engineer Bertolini. However, the wish to complete the bell tower was to be achieved in 1894 by Thomas Graham Jackson who visited Zadar in 1885 and 1887. He made several project with different conceptions. In his first project published in The Builder (May, 25, 1889) he intentionally combined the local and transalpine Romanesque forms in order to show that the tower was completed by an Englishman. Representatives of the Viennese Imperial and Royal Central-Commission for Artistic and Historical Monuments Friedrich von Schmidt and Alois Hauser insisted on the principle of the unity of style and the frequency of particular forms in the Dalmatian Romanesque architecture and suggested alterations of the project. The article represents an English language synthesis of the existing Croatian literature on the bell tower of Zadar Cathedral (by Marija Stagličić, Stanko Piplović, and Dragan Damjanović) enriched with new details of the creative process from the archives of the Viennese Imperial and Royal Central-Commission for the Study and Maintenance of Artistic and Historical Monuments and positions the completion of the bell tower in the context of the Central European historicist phenomenon called Turmvollendung in the German-language countries. |
