RESTAURAREA A DOUĂZECI DE CASETE PICTATE ALE TAVANULUI BISERICII REFORMATE DIN VECHEA

Author(s): Mioara SÎNTIUAN,Maria TONCA,Ioan Butnariu,Dana Benkara,Emanuel NICULA-ANDREICA / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

The present paper describes the state of conservation of 20 wooden painted panels belonging to an 18th century painted coffered ceiling broght to life by Lőrinc Umling the Elder (1751). The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography has in its heritage 47 such painted panels which comprise the ceiling of the former Reformed Church from the village of Vechea, Cluj County. Most painted ceilings with identified authors belong to the three generations of painter-carpenters from the Umling family, whose members have worked for more than a half a century (1742-1794) in Hungarian Reformed Churches throughout the territory of the nowadays counties of Cluj, Sălaj and Bistrița-Năsăud. The specific techniques and materials used for the completion of the 20 wooden panels, together with the degradations forms of the wooden supportand those of the painted layers they carry are revealed above in the article, leading to the selection by the museum specialists of the proper restoration steps to be taken on. The complexity and the high volume of the needed operations (adding the time pressure urged by the deadline of this restoration work), imposed as necessary the team work of several museum professionals.

Avant-gardists and primitivism

Author(s): Aneta Pawłowska / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2017

Can we talk about contemporary avant-garde outside Western cultures? The case of contemporary art in the Republic of South Africa

Author(s): Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2017

Anthropophagy as a concept of the Brazilian avant-garde at the end of the 1920s. Between history, myth and artistic conception

Author(s): Ewa Kubiak / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2017

Interwar works by Izrael Lejzerowicz in the context of the “new art” milieu’s accomplishments in Łódź

Author(s): Irmina Gadowska / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2017

The intermediality of the avant-garde or the avant-garde of intermediality? Is the avant-garde intermedial?

Author(s): Konrad Chmielecki / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2017

Intermediality and performativity in the context of performance art

Author(s): Lilianna Bieszczad / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2017

Designing utopia. Avant-garde architecture vs. processes of modernization

Author(s): Błażej Ciarkowski / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2017

Beyond a narrative. Functionless modernist heritage buildings and the aesthetic autonomy of the citizens

Author(s): Jakub Petri / Language(s): English Issue: 19/2017

DIE AULA PALATINA AUS DEM 4. JAHRHUNDERT IN SAVARIA (REVISION UND AUFGABEN)

Author(s): Isztin Gyula,Tárczy Tamás,Endre Tóth / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2014

The western part of a Late Roman palace, including a large, undivided hall, was excavated in Szombathely between 1938 and 1943. The floor of the apsidal hall was lavishly decorated with mosaics, while the wall footings were covered with colourful marble slabs. The construction of the palace was no doubt begun in consequence of the administrative changes during the Tetrarchy, when Savaria became the seat of the praeses. The architectural history of the palace suggests that the mosaic floor could not have been made before the 350s. It seems likely that the hall had been constructed as part of the preparations for Valentinian I’s visit to Savaria (374–375). However, only the excavation of the successive levels of the mosaic floor and the assessment of the finds can provide a more accurate date.

Symbolizm architektoniczny: polityka wyrażona w kamieniu

Author(s): Natalia Khoma / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2016

Architecture is studied as a system of signs – symbols which are significant for understanding the essence and specific features of politics. We investigate how the architectural forms and images influence the political outlook of the person in the process of perception. Architectural objects are analysed through the sense of semiotics (as signs with some symbolic subtext). Political reality is presented in its symbolic (embodied in architecture) expression.

Сучасні методи використання ландшафтного дизайну в міському середовищі

Author(s): Nataliya But / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2010

In the article the new direction of science, industry practice, which was formed in the depths of knowledge areas that are already developed and the theoretical and empirical foundation - namely, at the junction of several sciences. Landscape design - an independent field of art that has a specific subject and object.

Die Strassenstation von Nemescsó an der Bernsteinstrasse

Author(s): Stefan Groh,Péter Kiss,Helga Sedlmayer / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2010

Geophysical prospecting and surveys carried out in 2009–2010 in Nemescsó (County Vas, Hungary) revealed evidence of a structure with stone foundation walls located along the Amber Road, which can be interpreted as a road station. This building, with partially roofed court and corner risalits, can be directly compared with the street station at Sorokpolány. Both stations are located at a distance of 12.6 km (or 8.5 Roman miles) from Savaria/Szombathely along the Amber Road, with Nemescsó in the north of the Colonia and Sorokpolány in the south. Based on the find materials from the surveys, it can be tentatively suggested that the most intensive usage of the street station at Nemescsó took place during a time period between 160/180–250/270 A.D.

Ordo Uluš, Solmi and Bešbalik

Author(s): Peter Zieme / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2009

In this paper an Old Uighur fragment is published that sheds some light on a reconstruction work of Bešbalık (Chinese Beiting), the former capital of the West Uighur Kingdom. Beside Bešbalık the city of Solmı (Agni / Karašahr) is mentioned as well as the enigmatic term ordo uluš which probably is a designation of a “residence”.

Über die Chronologie der mittelalterlichen Siedlungsgrabungen in Ungarn. Erläuterungen zu zwei chronologischen Tabellen

Author(s): Miklós Takács / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2009

The aim of the present paper is to give an overview on the issue of the archaeological investigations of the chronology of medieval settlements in Hungary. After a brief introduction dealing with theoretical and/or methodological questions, a description of the literature is given in order to explain a rather chaotical picture of a graphic image of settlement dating (Fig. 1). In the last chapter of the paper one can find an attempt to give a schema for a frame-like – i. e. not exact – dating of medieval settlements in Hungary (Fig. 2).

Extending the timeline in the Bokrijk Open Air Museum – Why, how and when

Author(s): Annick Boesmans / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2010

Since the eighties, apart from the urban homes in Antwerp, there have been virtually no new buildings added to the Open Air Museum of Bokrijk. In 1989 building works on the urban part were stopped. Today, plans to reproduce the sixties and seventies in the urban section have again been taken in hand. We hope to be able to bring back to life the period from 1958–1973 by the beginning of the 2012 season. In this article we will look into how the ideas for reproducing this era in Bokrijk were turned into reality.

Das Wasser als technisches material und element in der ungarischen Gartenkunst und Repräsentation des 18. Jahrhunderts

Author(s): Katalin Czibula / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2009

The article deals with the history of water culture and its architectural implementation in the Baroque era. What interests me most in this epoch is what man actually knew about water as a physical element and its laws in the Kingdom of Hungary. One of the important sources is the handwritten, encyclopaedic textbook of a Hungarian Piarist, who attempted to summarize the contemporary findings of the natural sciences. These are Lukács Mösch's script Bibliothecae mathematicae ... Classis I-III. Anno 1684. This manuscript underlies the scientific explanations also with numerous valuable illustrations, some of which are reproduced here. The practical application of this Mösch material is seen in the Hungarian garden art of the age in which the technical attractions were combined with the theater and Christian symbolism. Examples are the aristocratic gardens of Eger, Cseklész, Pozsonyivánka and Eszterháza, which are discussed in detail in this text.

DIE DIETACHER KAPELLE UND IHRE WANDMALEREIEN

Author(s): Susanne Heilingbrunner / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2008

Beneath the former hospital of Dietach in Upper Austria there is a small chapel situated, which was supposedly built by the famous Baroque architect Johann Michael Prunner. He was the architect of Graf Franz Josef von Lamberg (Steyr), who founded the hospital of Dietach in 1687. In 1997 the chapel had to be removed because the street in front of it had to be enlarged. To save the chapel from destroying, it was moved seven metres backwards from the street in a remarkable operation, which was financed by the owner, the Bundesdenkmalamt and the government of Upper Austria. The restoration of the chapel put forth a significant mural painting with an illustration of the deposition of the cross, painted by Johann Georg Morzer in 1752. He is the painter of the crucifixion in the Cellar of the Coelestine-Abbey in Steyr. Today the chapel is a popular tourist attraction, primaryly because of the fantastic, restored mural painting inside.

Baths in Ottoman Hungary

Author(s): Balázs Sudár / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2004

The primary aim of the present paper was to collect all the historical data on baths in Ottoman Hungary. An attempt was made at reconstructing their number and location, and identifying the persons who founded them and the time when they were available for service. The study is followed by a database of place-names arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry contains the relevant sources, the original texts themselves being listed in chronological order and succeeded by a short list of archeological studies. Finally, an analysis and interpretation of the sources are given. Despite the difficulties in assessing the exact number of baths in Ottoman Hungary, a total of approximately 75 can be identified.

The sacred in beauty of the building space for meditation, prayer and liturgy

Author(s): Jan Rabiej / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

Architecture links the pragmatic and metaphysical dimension of the culture. This phenomenon of architecture is particularly visible in sacred buildings. Churches are also the signs of the sacred in the “semiotic landscape” of modern cities. The full meaning of sacred architecture is not only connected with the institutionalised forms of religious cult. The value of location, plan composition, outlines’ shapes, architectural detail make these buildings the reinterpretation of the sacred buildings’ archetypes. In their forms we can interpret the meaning of universal symbols: a road, gate, nave, vault, tower, light and colours. We can find the sequences of these notions in modern buildings which semantic dimension lacks direct references to religion. The attributes typical of churches imitate architectural forms of museums, opera houses, theatres and shopping arcades ... The redefinition in the cultural space is deepened by the signs of “parasacralization” of its areas which have been connected so far with mass culture, entertainment or even commerce or consumption. The ideas of the sacred and beauty – having been redefined for ages – still determine the nature of erected buildings which were religiously inspired. We can identify the elements of these ideas in diverse forms of space which is used for meditation, prayer and liturgy. The symbolic originators of their architecture, which contemporary-wise keep a particular power of message, are light and colours.