Arta practicată de ordinele catolice din Banat. Studiu de caz: biserica mănăstirii franciscane Maria Radna din Lipova
Art of the Religious Orders in the Banat. A Case Study: the Franciscan Monastery Church in Radna (Lipova)

Summary/Abstract: A clear case of stylistic import of Baroque influences, having Central European descend, the Franciscans promoted an art with a mission. Among the catholic orders who settled in the Banat province of the eighteenth century, the Franciscans regarded the Baroque as an instrument of faith, a clear case of devotional art where the church interior becomes a stage where monk artists like Joachim Eisenhut, Juniperus Stilp, Franz Wagenschon perform their artistry. The religious congregation used the rhetorics of the Baroque to make the unvisible-visible as the church dedicated to Mary from Radna (Lipova) depicts on the dome one of the most abstract images in art: the assumption of the Virgin. Promoters of the style in a late stage of evolution, the Franciscans from the Banat played a decisive role in forming the provincial Baroque.

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