Lengyel László (szerk.): Devóció és dekoráció - 18. és 19. századi korolstormunkák Magyarországon - Studia Agriensia 7. (Eger, 1987)

Summary

SMALL PILGRIMAGE ALTARS

Pilgrimage altars which were equipped with relics were already known in the Middle Ages. The Baroque descendants of these are the diptychs which can be seen in the exhibition. One group of the pilgrimage altars, which is well known and is widespread throughout Europe is the phylacte- rion. These are the St. Walburga oil cruets

COLLAGES

The flowering of the collage technique in the 17th and 18th centuries was aided throughout Europe by the products of the devotional picture printing workshops as well. Many people could obtain copperplate engravings because they were cheap. The collages were created with the copying and using of prints which served as illustrative motifs. All compositions made with collage technique want to produce, in a bigger or smaller degree the illusion of space and the third dimension. Their creators used every way to increase depth in space. This type of perspective creation was not unfamiliar to the high art of the period either. The altar composition which is nearly realist and depends on illusions in space is not rare in Baroque art. The scenic space representation of the age influenced sculpture and through this convent work.

STRAW PICTURES

The effects of straw pictures are closely connected to the marquetries made from exquisite timber which were well known to high art in the Baroque period. All straw pictures have painted and graphic pictures as prefigures. Straw works were made first of all in the 18th and 19th centuries in the southern territories of Austria and Germany. They used it as a covering for everyday objects and for the composition of pictures.

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