Aproapele de departe, străinul de aproape: între Iosif al II-lea ca pater familias și maghiari ca alteritate nocturnă. Teme iconografice într-o biseri
The neighbour from afar, the stranger from a near: from Joseph II as pater familias to Hungarians as nocturnal alterity. Iconographic themes in a Tran

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the iconography of the wooden church from Ticu-Colonie, Cluj county. Beginning with distribution of scenes from the nave, painted by the Greek-Catholic priest Ursu Broină, at the end of the 18th century, we will attempt to reconstruct the patterns used by the artist to emphasize, by visual representations, a Romanian collective identity. There will be examined several iconographic sequences amongst which are also two compositions depicting Emperor Joseph II. Not being present explicitly at the level of visual discourse, Romanian identity is set indirectly within the religious speech from inside of the building, on one hand, by appeal to imperial authority as guarantee of a certain ethnic group, on the other hand, by reference to a negative alterity, constructed with elements of Hungarian clothing.

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