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Franciscan friary, Dubrovnik

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by the master Mihoje Brajkov of Bar. The friary contains two cloisters. The upper cloister was built in Renaissance style, with arches and semicircular vaults. The lower cloister was built in Romanesque-Gothic style with arches, 120 columns and 12 massive pilasters and a promenade. The capitals on
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in the central lunette, decorated with flamboyant leaves, is flanked by the figures of St. Jerome (holding a model of the pre-earthquake church) and St. John the Baptist. On top of the lunette stands the figure of the Father Creator. The interior of the church was reconstructed in
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with a single nave. The marble pulpit survived the earthquake of 1667. The main altar with the statue of the resurrected Christ between four twisted marble columns was created by the sculptor Celia from Ancona in 1713. The five side altars were sculpted by the Venetian
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The earliest friary was built in the 13th century outside the walls. A new friary inside the walls and close to the Pile Gate, was built in 1317, but its construction took centuries. Parts of the complex were rebuilt several times.
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The pharmacy dates from 1317 and is the oldest still-functioning pharmacy in Europe and the third oldest in the world.
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The library (built in the 17th century) contains over 20,000 books, among them 1200 valuable old manuscripts, 137
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between 1684 and 1696. The decorations on the altar of St. Francis were painted in 1888 by the painter
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are all different showing various geometric, plant-, human- and animal-like figures.
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by the workshop of the brothers Leonard and Petar Petrović. The almost life-sized
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The library and the bell tower were damaged during the 1991 war.
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Index

Friars Minor
Dubrovnik

earthquake of 1667
Pietro di Martino da Milano
Gothic style
Pietà
Baroque style
Giuseppe Sardi
Celestin Medović
Ivan Gundulić
Romanesque style
hexaphoras
incunables
thurible
Francesco Raibolini
St Ursula
View from the city walls
Interior of the Franciscan church
Main altar
Altar of St. Francis
Cloister
Colonnade of the cloister
Old pharmacy
Carved portal from 1498
Franciscan Monastery - Dubrovnik
Franciscan Monastery Museum
ISBN
978-953-179-884-6
42°38′30″N 18°06′28″E / 42.6418°N 18.1078°E / 42.6418; 18.1078

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