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In her paper, author examines the ideological, political and other symbolic contents of the chapel of St Jerome and the altar of the confraternity of “Albanesi, Croati a Cavallo i Oltramarini”, which enjoyed the elite status within the Venetian army, in the St Simon church in the city of Zadar. The altar of St Jerome together with the surrounding area inside the church aisle - also called the chapel of St Jerome - represented an isolated unit delineated by a balustrade which could be used separately from the rest of the church, on certain occasions and festivities, by the members of the confraternity as well as the representatives of local and regional Venetian government at Zadar, and ecclesiastical and other dignitaries. The author shows how this chapel serves as an example of the political public-private partnership. This partnership is based on private donations, and fulfills political, social, religious and lithurgical functions. The military confraternity symbolically expropriated the space in the church of the Zadar city patron. Confraternity itself is connected with Venetian state ideology, and that connection is visible in an iconographic program of the altar which includes coats of arm of two Dalmatian provveditore generale, Daniele Dolfin (1692-1696) and probably Pietro Civrano (1674-1675). The third coat of arms visible on the altar is coat of arms of the main investor and caretaker of the altar colonel Simeone Fanfogna who was a distinguished commander of Venetian army and Zadar nobleman (he died in Lendinara in1707). (The)Author would refer to other notable personalities who were buried in the same tomb in front of the altar of St Jerome in later period (liutenant Andrija Mladinić (cca 1700- 1783), captain/ capitano de Croati a cavallo, Mihovil Anđelo Filiberi, Šibenik nobleman (died 1778)). The whole function and use of the altar suggests that members of the confraternity were symbolical stake-holders of the chapel. The chapel itself was – therefore - reserved exclusively for men and soldiers (sergenti maggiori, capitani, tenenti, alfieri, soldati a piedi, come a cavallo) in the Venetian military service who origniated from Venetian Dalmatia and Venetian Albania. |
