THE DECORATION OF ICONS IN BANAT. THE 18th CENTURY
THE DECORATION OF ICONS IN BANAT. THE 18th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: By briefly summarising the tradition of icon decorations in Byzantium, the study sketches the evolution of this procedure in the post-Byzantine epoch, while analysing its specific characteristics until the 17th and 18th centuries, in the Balkan area and Romanian provinces, Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania and Banat. The last one, a territory defined by some nuanced evolution during the 18th century, as an imperial province within the borders of the Habsburgic Empire, a territory of cultural and spiritual confluences. From the author’s viewpoint, the deciphering of the icons’ ornamentation represents a useful tool in the theoretical and applied research. If applied to the mobile patrimony in Banat, frequently missing the identifying elements, it can provide information regarding the source of the model, it can approximately indicate the dating of some works, by analogy with some others, which were signed, contributing, in the context of formal analysis, to a better comprehension of the evolution of stylistic options chosen by the limited partners and creators during the „Enlightenment” century.

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