REPREZENTAREA BINELUI ŞI RĂULUI ÎN ICONOGRAFIA ROMÂNEASCĂ PRIN NUME LAICE ŞI PORTRETE DE PERSONAJE ISTORICE
THE REPRESENTATION OF GOOD AND EVIL IN ROMANIAN ICONOGRAPHY TROUGH THE SECULAR NAMES AND PORTRAITS OF HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

Summary/Abstract: In sacred language, word and image suggest a religious idea or feeling, a fact in church history, a commandment or, most often, a punishment. Religious art enables establishing a relationship between the sensitive, creatural sphere, on the one hand, and the spiritual non-corporeal one, on the other hand. At the same time, it aims at materialising or at least symbolising the abstract world of ideas and feelings. The theoretical framework of our paper is sustained by Wunenburger’s approach (2004), according to which, the image created through perceptive representation has the function of representing a thing, of substituting the object so as to become a representation of the transcendental. In presenting the role of the image in the religious iconic discourse of Romanian Orthodoxism, we intend to explain how iconographic representations could orient collective perception on well-meaning people vs. enemies, or so called evil agents, depending on the historical age, to the point that aspects of social life, common people or apparently trivial facts were projected as the very epitome of good or evil. Thus, it is via spiritual indoctrination and under dogmatic influence that many devotees acquired a totally negative perception and aversion to communism, fracmasonry, television, Internet etc

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