AMBIENTUM BIOETHICA BIOLOGIA CHEMIA DIGITALIA DRAMATICA EDUCATIO ARTIS GYMNAST. ENGINEERING EPHEMERIDES EUROPAEA GEOGRAPHIA GEOLOGIA HISTORIA HISTORIA ARTIUM INFORMATICA IURISPRUDENTIA MATHEMATICA MUSICA NEGOTIA OECONOMICA PHILOLOGIA PHILOSOPHIA PHYSICA POLITICA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA SOCIOLOGIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA LATIN THEOLOGIA GR.-CATH. VARAD THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA THEOLOGIA REF. TRANSYLVAN
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Authors: LUKÁCS OLGA.
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DOI: 10.24193/subbtref.64.2.14
Published Online: 2019-11-20
Published Print: 2019-11-30
pp. 259-278
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Analogies between the Image Theology of the Transylvanian Ceiling Paintings and the Catacomb Frescos. The age of institutionalization and consolidation of the Reformation coincides with the blooming of Renaissance art, and this is why this style was adopted by religious architecture and ornamentation. The emergence of the new style gradually led to the appearance of paintings on the tablets in the Protestant churches as well, being decorated with images, in particular, the choir boards and ceiling coffers. The primary source of the painted coffered ceilings is considered to be the painting on wooden boards during the Italian Renaissance and starting from here, in the entire Carpathian Basin and in Transylvania, the ancient art of catacomb painting has re-emerged through these painted coffers. Like the frescoes in the catacombs, the painted ceilings are not icons, their vast panorama turning, rather, towards metacommunication through which eternal life can be contemplated. As with the motifs used in the catacomb paintings, all the figures on the coffered ceilings represent symbols and emblems of the church and nature, finding a justification in the Protestant theology of the image. The painted ceilings therefore represent a means of metacommunication, of mediation, referring to the invisible world of the Scriptures and Gospels, this invisible world being depicted by real or imaginary animals and plants, and generally through figurative and floral ornamentation. The coffers are the ideal of the sanctification of life, the life created by God, which is sublimated into a higher existence, honouring God through the paintings. This study parallels the richness of motifs on the painted boxes and the frescoes in the catacombs, presenting the found similarities.
Keywords: coffered ceilings, Protestant image theology, religious art, Protestant religious art, figurative representations.
