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The Painter Filippo Naldi
Radoslav Tomić, “Slikar Filippo Naldi,” Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti 30 (2006), pp. 163–183.
- Relevance to the family history
- The article documents Naldi’s portraits of Luka and Ivan Nonković, an altarpiece commissioned through Luka Nonković’s efforts, and several important events in the earlier family history.
- Printed pages
- 163–164, 175–178
- PDF pages
- 1–2, 13–16
Transcript of the cited text
Original Croatian text
„Portret Luke Nonkovića […] 1752. g. […] Split, Muzej grada Splita”; „Portret Ivana Nonkovića […] 1759. g. […] Split, Muzej grada.”
English translation
“Portrait of Luka Nonković […] 1752 […] Split City Museum”; “Portrait of Ivan Nonković […] 1759 […] Split City Museum.”Original Croatian text
„Unuci su serdara Nikole Nonkovića iz Broćanca, koji je 1686. godine prešao sa svoja dva sina, starijim Vulom i mlađim Jurom, na mletačko tlo.”
English translation
“They were grandsons of Serdar Nikola Nonković of Broćanac, who in 1686 crossed into Venetian territory with his two sons, the elder Vule and the younger Jure.”Original Croatian text
„27. lipnja 1696. godine dužd Silvestro Valier dodijelio [je Vuli] naslov viteza Sv. Marka”.
English translation
“On 27 June 1696 Doge Silvestro Valier granted Vule the title of Knight of St Mark.”Original Croatian text
„Tu su podigli kulu s kapelom (utvrda Smrdan ili Grad te kula u Kleku). S mletačkih posjeda u Dalmaciji nastavili su Nonkovići vojevati protiv Turaka: u oslobađanju Herceg Novog poginuo je Nikolin sin Jure. […] Njegov sin Vule Nonković […] upravo je on pri osvajanju Čitluka 1694. godine zapalio Počitelj. […] Iduće godine u napadu na Ljubinje pogiba Nikola Nonković.”
English translation
“There they built a tower with a chapel (the fortification of Smrdan or Grad and the tower at Klek). From the Venetian possessions in Dalmatia the Nonković family continued fighting the Ottomans: Nikola’s son Jure was killed during the liberation of Herceg Novi. […] His son Vule Nonković […] took part in the capture of Čitluk in 1694, when he burned Počitelj. […] The following year Nikola Nonković was killed in the attack on Ljubinje.”Original Croatian text
„Vule […] bio je nadintendant u Opuzenu 1721., 1731., 1732. i 1733. godine. Umro je 1734. i pokopan u crkvi sv. Ivana Krstitelja na otočiću Osinj, koja je bila njihovo vlasništvo. […] Nakon očeve smrti službu nadintendanta naslijedio [je] drugi sin Luka. […] Nakon Lukine smrti 1752. godine službu je preuzeo njegov sin Antun, koga je do punoljetnosti 1763. zamjenjivao stric Ivan kao viceintendant.”
English translation
“Vule […] was superintendent at Opuzen in 1721, 1731, 1732, and 1733. He died in 1734 and was buried in the Church of St John the Baptist on the islet of Osinj, which was their property. […] After his father’s death, the other son, Luka, inherited the office of superintendent. […] After Luka’s death in 1752, the office passed to his son Antun, for whom his uncle Ivan served as vice-superintendent until he came of age in 1763.”Original Croatian text
„Nonkovići su prikazani dopojasno, naoružani mačevima, u raskošnoj odjeći s hermelinom, crvenom kapom i zlatnim dodacima na rubovima.” Natpisi na portretima bilježe Luku i Ivana kao sinove viteza Vule te njihove upravne službe u Neretvi.
English translation
“The Nonković men are shown from the waist up, armed with swords, in splendid ermine clothing, red caps, and gold edging.” The portrait inscriptions identify Luka and Ivan as sons of Knight Vule and record their administrative offices in the Neretva.Original Croatian text
„Iste 1752. godine kada Naldi radi njegov portret naručio je Luka Nonković i oltarnu sliku Kamenovanje sv. Stjepana za župnu crkvu u Opuzenu.” Zapis na poleđini bilježi obnovu slike u Veneciji 1872. o trošku Petra Nonkovića i članova obitelji Nikolić.
English translation
“In the same year, 1752, when Naldi painted his portrait, Luka Nonković also commissioned the altarpiece The Stoning of St Stephen for the parish church at Opuzen.” A note on the reverse records its restoration in Venice in 1872 at the expense of Petar Nonković and members of the Nikolić family.Editorial and translation note
Tomić dates the crossing to 1686, while Krešić places the final compact and completed migration in July 1687. Tomić dates Morosini’s patent to 20 January 1692 more Veneto and glosses it as 1693; that calendrical difference should not be silently removed.