ROMANIAN CULTURE, PATRIMONIAL HERITAGE AND POPULAR ART
ROMANIAN CULTURE, PATRIMONIAL HERITAGE AND POPULAR ART

Summary/Abstract: The cultural patrimony, the national and regional cultural policies – in other words, the attention given to these – constitute the identity of a nation, but also the moral landmark on which the today and the tommorow society has to relate itself to. The act of awareness of the liability a community is having towards the cultural patrimony coveres a long and devious way. Man’s ignorance or aggresive behaviour sacrificed invaluable works of art, creations of a great beauty, thus cutting from the legacy of humanity priceless parts of the spiritual realities and not only. Wars, revolutions, earthquakes, floods and above all man’s actions turned to ashes lots of wonders from antiquity, middle ages and modern times. What had happened to countries with a richer cultural dowry than Romania, happened to Romania’s territory too, in regions like Banat, devastated by the imperial armies or by the migratory hordes which ravaged our settlements. As such, the cultural patrimony from Banat bears the mark of the historical evolution. It is also the creation of several nations: Romanian, Serbian, Hungarians, Germans, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Croatians, Jews, Czechs which were influenced each other in time. The present work tackles aspects linked to the research, description and analisying of the phenomena and the patrimonial values in order to protect and promote the cultural patrimony of Banat.

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