CÂTEVA CONSIDERAŢII ASUPRA GENEALOGIEI ZUGRAVILOR DE ICOANE DIN LANCRĂM (JUDEŢUL ALBA)
REMARKS ON THE GENEALOGY OF THE GLASSPAINTERS FROM LANCRĂM (ALBA)

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of the 18th century and the 19th century a centre of glasspainting developed in Lancrăm, on the Sebeş Valley. The available studies, from Ghe. Pavelescu and Ştefan Meteş to G.M. Hărdălău and Doina Hopârtean, do not offer any precise information concerning the genealogy of the glasspainters who lived here: no chronological data or references to any blood ties are mentioned. The identity of the founder of the glasspainter families - COSTEA Nicolae or Ioan - cannot be established with precision. Based on some archival data (i.e. the Protocols of the Baptized, the Married and the Dead), this study aims provide an answer to the problem of the succession of the glasspainters in Lancrăm. We could identify, in the Protocols, registrations of the Costea Family - Nicolae Costea, Petru Costea (Petru Costea Dascălu), Ioan Costea and Ilie Costea, Ioan I. Costea. The absence of term "glasspainter" from the Protocols restricts the scope of this research to some remarks only, partial explanations, possible identifications, or a shift in some chronological data concerning some of the glasspainters in Lancrăm.

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