Space, Image, Light : Toward an Understanding of Moldavian Architecture in the Fifteenth Century
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00136432" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00136432 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/712643" target="_blank" >https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/712643</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/712643" target="_blank" >10.1086/712643</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Space, Image, Light : Toward an Understanding of Moldavian Architecture in the Fifteenth Century
Original language description
Sunlight has long been harnessed to define and accentuate sacred space. This study explores several light phenomena carefully observed in the late fifteenth-century church of the Holy Cross at the former Patrauti Monastery in Moldavia (modern Romania), arguing that the edifice was designed and decorated relative to the direction of sunlight on important dates throughout the liturgical year. While such use of natural light has been observed in other medieval and early modern Christian buildings, the case of Patrauti stands out for its mise-en-scene of moving sunlight. Denoting awareness of cosmic phenomena and architectural know-how, the case study also attests to a careful coordination of the design of architecture, decoration, and ritual. The historic importance of the church, as one of the earliest and best-preserved examples of its kind in Moldavia, gives particular relevance to the studied light effects. The complex principles used to deploy light in this historically significant church invite further analyses along similar lines of inquiry for other medieval and early modern churches both in Moldavia and throughout the Byzantine and Slavic cultural spheres.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
GESTA-INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF MEDIEVAL ART
ISSN
0016-920X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
60
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
81-100
UT code for WoS article
000640009600004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85104486866