ATTILA DEASUPRA ORAȘULUI. PROGRAMUL ICONOGRAFIC AL GRUPULUI STATUAR REALIZAT DE JÓZSEF RÓNA PE FAŢADA MUZEULUI INDUSTRIAL SECUIESC
ATTILA OVER THE TOWN. THE ICONOGRAPHIC PROGRAMME OF THE STATUARY GROUP CREATED BY JÓZSEF RÓNA ON THE FAÇADE OF THE SZEKLER MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY

Summary/Abstract: The sculptural decoration of the Szekler (Székely) Museum of Industry in Târgu Mureş is an early work of the important turn-of-the-century Hungarian sculptor, József Róna. It represents Attila the Hun enthroned and surrounded by the allegories of Transylvania and Hungary accompanied by a young girl and a boy, the allegories of textile and metal industries, referring to the double mission of the museum of industry. The newly founded institution aimed at modernizing the traditional textile and home industries of the Hungarian-speaking Szeklerland at the Eastern periphery of Historic Hungary and introduces the technology and materials of modern metal industry into local building industry. The sculptural decoration representing Attila enthroned is a special and rare iconographic type; the sculptural composition had been formed in the early 1890s at the time of the competing visions to commemorate the Hungarian millennium.

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