Tablet with relief


Novi Vinodolski 16th century Wood, lime-tree, polychrome; 117 x 61 cm On a wooden tablet St Paul the Hermit and St Anthony are depicted in relief dressed in the vestments of the Pauline order. They sit below two palms. Between them a raven with spread wings, holding bread. St Paul is holding a book in his lap with the inscription 'Dominus regit me et nihil mihi deest in loco pos(t)(?)', while St Anthony is holding a book with an illegible inscription. A volute on each side of the lower part and the inscription reads: 'DIVI ERMITA FRATRES PAVLVS ET ANTONIVS / Hospitis onte...' Donated to the National Museum in 1911 by Dr Dragutin Smokvina, dean and parish priest at Novi Vinodolski. Kultura pavlina u Hrvatskoj, MUO, Zagreb, 1989, pages 442 and 443, catalogue number 192; Proslost i bastina Vinodola, (exhibition catalogue of the PMH), Zagreb, 1988, page 138, catalogue number 204; Ratkaji Velikotaborski, (exhibition catalogue of the HPM), Veliki Tabor, 1993, catalogue number 55; Zvonimir Wyroubal, Konzerviranje i restauriranje plastike u Hrvatskoj, Tkalcicev zbornik II, 1958, page 327, illustration 4. Conservation work was done in 1912 by Professor Vladimir Tkalcic, and in 1974 by the Croatian Institute for Restoration.




HPM/PMH-001896