SARKOFAG MAGDALENE BUDRIŠIĆ – MIT ILI POVIJESNO UTEMELJENA ISTINA
THE SARCOPHAGUS OF MAGDALENA BUDRIŠIĆ – A MYTH OR HISTORICALLY BASED TRUTH

Summary/Abstract: The sarcophagus located in the Kampor monastery on the island of Rab is always mentioned in the literature as the sarcophagus in which, according to tradition, princess Magdalena Budrišić of Modruš was buried. This paper attempts to answer the question of where the myth of the sarcophagus of Magdalena Budrišić comes from. By studying the literary source about her life, which is the main source of the claim that Magdalena was interred in it, and the stylistic and iconographic analysis of the sarcophagus, an attempt is made to determine the basis of the claim. Along with this, the text tries to confirm or refute the previous dates, the iconographic determinations of the depicted characters and the influences that can be discerned on the sarcophagus. As a more precise dating of the sarcophagus, possible sources of iconographic motifs and analogies are presented as a proposition. Its other possible original location and the circumstances of its removal to the Kampor monastery are also presented.

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