CATALOGUL COLECŢIEI DE ICOANE PE STICLĂ A EPISCOPIEI ORTODOXE ROMÂNE DE ALBA IULIA
THE CATALOGUES OF THE GLASS ICONS OF THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX BISHOPRIC OF ALBA IULIA

Summary/Abstract: ,The'art of glass pamting, coming tIom the central European' countries .(Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, arid Slev.akÎa), flourished' inTlansylvania 'at' the end of. the, XVllth and in :.the XIXth century. It gaiQ.ed'a new and original fQnn, here, chara,cteristic fOI the aesthetic conception of the Romanian pebple. "~o Tbe result, of anonymousmasteIS, theglass" icons ofthe 'Romanian peasants fromTransylvania, , contributed .to ke<,ep" alive, theiI spiritual uni1y. Thi} catologue ofthe glass icons from the collection of theRomanian O,:U,odox Bishopric ofAlba, Iulia is 'trvÎI\g "to piesent the importanee ,of ţhis branch of, the folk art, unique 'in the wo'rld by itsreachness and hannony of col()uIS. The' catalogtÎe is the' resul! of' the researcl1es undertaken betweem 1986" - 1988, but this fust put'contains onlY the introductory study, presenting 'the Alba Iulia' Bishoprlc collection, founded ,', in 1979' and ·counting' 263 ,icons flom the next centres: Nicula Ghella,Laz; LancIăm, MaieriiA.lba Iuliei" Iemuteni,Mărginimea Sibiului,NonIuI Transilvaniei, Făgăraş, Sc~ii Bmşovulqi, Ţara Oltului. The descriptiveeatalogue will bepublished in ,ilie next numbeIS of ilie review ~~.

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