Restoration meets linguistics: Ghenadie's iconography
Restoration meets linguistics: Ghenadie's iconography
Author(s): Elena RădoiSubject(s): Cultural history, Architecture, Visual Arts, Historical Linguistics, 19th Century
Published by: Editura "Arhitectură. Restaurare. Arheologie"
Keywords: 19th century;Southern Romania;Bishop Ghenadie;painting handbook;trahin blut;cultural interference;linguistics;material science;
Summary/Abstract: In 1891 the Bishop Ghenadie al Râmnicului published a painting handbook, based on a manuscript authored at the beginning of the 19thcentury by a painter called Gheorghe. Besides iconographical descriptions and technical recipes, the book also contains a quite unique vocabulary. Although the text is on the whole written in Romanian, several pigments are listed under bizarre pseudo-German names. The manuscript speaks to the nature of Romanian-German relations in the 19th century, and also constitutes a precious source of information on particular varnish recipes.
Journal: Caiete ARA
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 7
- Page Range: 139-145
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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