RITAM GRADA RHYTHM OF THE TOWN
BARUTANA PUNA UMETNOSTI I RELIGIJE GUNPOWDER MAGAZINE FILLED WITH ART AND RELIGION
K ad se od bunara krene van kalemegdanskih zidina, stiže se do Barutnog magacina, tako- đe graditeljskog dela Austrijanaca u Donjem gradu. Udobno ušuškan u brdo, ipak je ne- kad bio poprište eksplozija. Sad je u najvećoj sali deo postavke beogradskog Narodnog muzeja. Stećci, nad- grobni spomenici, i sarkofazi iz rimskog perioda sve- doče da je među stanovnicima Singidunuma u 4. veku bilo i imućnih hrišćana. O tome govori reljef na jednom od sačuvanih artefakata: tu su starozavetni Jona i kit ili neka slična neman koja ga je progutala i Hrist sa ja- gnjetom oko vrata vedriji no što su ga kasniji umetnici predstavljali. „Čudo Hristovog vaskrsenja prijemčivije je kad se uzme u obzir da je i Jona spasen iz utrobe ki- ta“, tumači Katarina Jovančić, istoričarka umetnosti.
W hen you head away from the bunker and move beyond the walls of Kalemegdan Fortress, you will reach the Barutana gunpowder magazine, but al- so the Austrian architectural works of the Lower Town. Nestled comfortably into the hillside, it was once actual- ly the scene of an explosion. Now its largest underground hall houses part of the exhibition of the Belgrade National Museum. Stećci, tombstones and sarcophagi from the Roman period tes- tify to the fact that the inhabitants of Singidunum in the 4 th cen- tury included wealthy Christians. This is illustrated by a relief on one of the surviving artefacts: it depicts the Old Testament’s Jo- nah and the whale or some similar creature that swallowed him, and Christ with a lamb around his neck, brighter than representa- tions of Christ by later artists. “The miracle of Christ’s resurrec- tion is more responsive when we take into account that Jonah was also rescued from the bowels of the whale,” explains histo- rian Katarina Jovančić.
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