LUPOAICA DE PE CAPITOLIU - ACT DE RATIFICARE A OBÂRȘIEI CARPATO-DANUBIANE A SPIRITUALITĂȚII EUROPENE
THE CAPITOLINE WOLF AS AN ACT OF RATIFICATION ON THE CARPATHO-DANUBIAN ORIGIN OF EUROPEAN SPIRITUALITY

Summary/Abstract: A few years ago, my article, „The Capitoline Magnifying Glass and Technology” was accepted for publication, entitled only to account for the technological evolution of the deficiencies manifested in the study of this symbol. Historians, visual artists or art critics were expected to say something, FOR or AGAINST, about my attempt, but it was not, although the symbol is well known. Specialists from abroad did not prove to be too inspired in the analyzes made, although the statue was subjected to a restoration process. As far as we are concerned, the socio-historical context that determined the creation of this statue, unveiled after the first thirty years of the Romanian Republic, when any project had to be approved by vote within the republican institutions, has a special importance. As it bears the endorsement of the republican decision-making bodies, the Capitoline Magnifying Glass becomes concretely the bronze act by which the Carpatho-Danubian origin of Roman spirituality was publicly ratified. It is confused with the origin of European spirituality given the wide spread of the sacred wolf-headed symbol in space and time, as shown in his treatise the late Whitney Smith, former director of the American Center for Vexillology. As a result, please receive this version under the title „Capitoline Magnifying Glass as an act of ratification on the Carpatho-Danubian origin of European spirituality”.

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