Summary
The chapel of St. Barbara in Velika Mlaka
Editor: Sanja Cvetnić
In the professional literature dedicated to wooden church construction in Croatia, the chapel of St. Barbare in Velika Mlaka was recognized early on as the ultimate achievement of that dying historical and artistic heritage. It was introduced to science in 1911 by Emilij Laszowski and Janko Barle in the History of the Noble Municipality of Turopolje. The chronology he presents, the detailed inventory list and the space-time framework will be accepted as reference in any subsequent literature. Even then, Laszowski devotes considerable space to the chapel's iconographic specialty - the wall painting of the bearded crucified saint Kummernissa. Content-wise and artistically interesting and extremely rare in our art, St. Kummernissa became the basis of the visual identity of the chapel throughout the last century. Ethnologist Mirko Kus-Nikolayev (1930) recognizes it as a cultural phenomenon...
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