Senj i sv. Antun Opat na slikama frankapanskog oltara u Obervellachu
Senj and Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Pictures of the Frankopan Altar in Obervellach

Summary/Abstract: In the part of the Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale) that was called Torresella, Count Krsto Frankopan spent almost five years as a Venetian prisoner during the War of the League of Cambrai (1514-1519). After his transfer to a prison in Milan, he managed to escape from captivity in mid- October 1519 – five weeks after the (un)expected death of his wife Apollonia Lang. According to the words of Marin Sanudo, her body was shipped from Milan to one of Krsto’s castles in Istria. At the end of November, Krsto asked for permission from the Venetians to set up a votive altar in the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Chiogga, which the authorities forbade, however, they did allow him to send someone to Venice to collect his belongings. By January 1520, he was in Apollonia’s Falkenstein castle (Obervellach), where he installed a triptych, today known as Der Frangipani-Altar. The subject of this paper are two details on the paintings of that altar that art historians have not properly recognised and interpreted – one of which is directly related to the visual representation of the town of Senj.

• Details
• Contents