Giorgio di Matteo Dalmata e i suoi committenti: le reti del Quattrocento adriatico

During the early 15th century, a Dalmatian architectural and sculptural market flourished in the Adriatic basin, based on the extreme mobility of people and materials. The best-known architect-sculptor of the period, Giorgio di Matteo Dalmata/Juraj Matejev Dalmatinac, emerged as one of the protagonists of this fertile creative season characterized by the formulation of different constructive and formal solutions, often stimulated by antiquity. They correspond to a new socio-political order in the Adriatic, based on Venetian economic diplomatic mechanisms of taxation and privileges. The article offers a brief survey of some important protagonists of Giorgio di Matteo's choral commissions in Šibenik, Venice and Ancona, and their needs for representation in architectural and sculptural works.