Western European Prints and the Religious Art in the Balkans (18th–19th Centuries)
Western European Prints and the Religious Art in the Balkans (18th–19th Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: Dutch Mannerist and German Baroque illustrated Bibles from the 17th and 18th centuries served as models to Ukrainian, Russian, Greek, and Serbian painters and copper-plate engravers of the Modern Age. Along with the well-known examples rendered in painting, there are some valuable pieces that reveal the use of popular models in woodcarving. During the transition from the post-Byzantine art to the Baroque style, the adoption of Western European templates transformed from the marginalia to the sine qua non golden rule of Europeanization. In the belated manifestations of this style, local church communities resorted to them once again.

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