Space, Image, Light : Toward an Understanding of Moldavian Architecture in the Fifteenth Century

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Space, Image, Light : Toward an Understanding of Moldavian Architecture in the Fifteenth Century

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Space, Image, Light : Toward an Understanding of Moldavian Architecture in the Fifteenth Century

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60401 - Arts, Art history

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

GESTA-INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF MEDIEVAL ART

ISSN

0016-920X

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

60

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

81-100

Kód UT WoS článku

000640009600004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85104486866