ÎNRÂURIREA UNEI XILOGRAVURI DE DÜRER ASUPRA ILUSTRAłIEI DIN VOTIVA APPRECATIO, BLAJ, 1760
THE INFLUENCE OF A DÜRER’S WOODCUT ON THE ILLUSTRATION OF VOTIVA APPRECATIO, BLAJ, 1760

Summary/Abstract: The Latin work Votiva apprecatio was published in Blaj in 1760. Master Petru Tekeld dedicated it with warm reverential regards, in the name of the master printers, to bishop Petru Pavel Aron on his name day. The work is adorned with a woodcut that holds an exceptional place in the Romanian graphics of old-book. The drawing consists of three registers arranged vertically. In the upper part is represented the Virgin’s Coronation by the Holy Trinity, in the middle is the escutcheon of bishop Petru Pavel Aron, and in the lower side the earliest panorama of Blaj. The latter was conceived in a naïve, but significant manner. The rhombic composition of the Virgin’s Coronation by the Holy Trinity in this illustration from Blaj, the way the figures are rendered and placed, as well as the place occupied by the apostles Peter and Paul suggest without doubt Dürer’s woodcut The Assumption and Coronation of Virgin Mary, dated in 1510, which belongs to the cycle The Life of the Virgin.

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