ICOANE PE LEMN APARłINÂND CENTRULUI LAZ DIN COLECłIA MUZEULUI “ION RAICA”-SEBES (JUD. ALBA)
WOODEN ICONS BELONGING TO LAZ CENTER IN THE COLLECTION OF ”ION RAICA” MUSEUM FROM SEBES (ALBA COUNTY)

Summary/Abstract: The art and ethnography section of the museum “Ion Raica” from Sebes possesses a valuable collection of wooden and glass icons painted by painters of Laz center. Laz is a village located 16 km south of Sebes, part of the commune Săsciori, famous for its tradition of icon painting. The wooden icons are not as numerous as the glass ones, but they are extremely valuable. Their painters were members of Poienaru family, and were called Savu, Simion, Toma, and Ilie. In combination with other wooden icons from the churches of Laz, Dumbrava-Marga, Loman, Cărpinis, and the collection of the Orthodox Archbishopric of Alba Iulia, they reveal a less investigated angle of the production of this centre of icon painting. Based on the examination of the wooden icons one can establish the starting point, continuity or singularity of themes that were employed or avoided in glass icons.

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