The Altar Painting by Jacopo Marieschi in Dobrota

Crkva sv. Mateja u Dobroti (Boka Kotorska) posjeduje nekoliko vrijednih umjetnina 18. stoljeća. Ističu se među njima skulpture Giovannija Bonazze i Giuseppe Bernardija, te slika Pietra Antonija Novellija. Tim karakternim djelima autor priključuje i palu (147x70 cm) koja prikazuje Raspetoga Krista sa sv. Rokom i dušama čistilišta na južnom bočnom oltaru. Na temelju analize autor je pripisuje mletačkom slikaru Jacopo Marieschi (1711-1749.) i datira je sredinom 18. stoljeća.The church of St Matthew in Dobrota (Boka Kotorska) has preserved a number of valuable works of the 18th century art. One should point sculptures by Giovanni Bonazza and Giuseppe Bemardi, and a painting by Pietro Antonio Novelli. The author adds to those works an altar painting (147 x 70 cm) showing a Christ Crucified with St. Roch and the Souls in the Purgatory on the southern side altar. On the basis of an analysis he has ascribed it to the Venetian painter Jacopo Marieschi (1711-1794). It dates from the middle of the 18th century, after the dedication of the new church of St. Matthew in Dobrota (the old one was destroyed by the earthquake of 1667). This is the second known altar painting by this author commissioned by the Croats from Venetian East Adriatic possessions (Venetian Dalamatia and Albania). Marieschi is also the author of a monumental altar painting of the Virgin with St. Simeon Stock, Pope Honorius III and SS. Peter and Paul from Novalja, also attributed to Marieschi by the author of this study (1990)