Art And Mentality In The Late Middle Ages Transylvania
Art And Mentality In The Late Middle Ages Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: This paper starts from a re-evaluation of the iconography of Transylvanian Medieval art. This became possible after a thorough study, which helped identify new themes, and reconsider previous identifications. The main aim of this paper is to correlate the data of an interdisciplinary approach that resorts to history, dogma and ideology in order to define and explain the mentality of the time. Archival sources that document this approach will be invoked for the first time in this context, as evidence of typical forms of belief and devotion. Seen this way, Transylvanian art regains the dimension that places it more clearly within the orbit of the Western civilization, in an area where great medieval cultures meet and to which Transylvanian art has made an original contribution. Article contains 15 pages with photos.

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