Cseri Miklós, Füzes Endre (szerk.): Ház és ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 9. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1994)

JUHÁSZ KATALIN-G. SZABÓ ZOLTÁN: Barokkos házoromzatok a Kisalföld népi építészetében

BAROQUE GABLES IN THE VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE OF THE SMALL PLAIN IN NORTH-WESTERN HUNGARY The paper examines gables showing marks of the Baroque style and appearing on peasant houses in the Little Plain. Its method is a wide-ranging exploration of facts and the enumeration and comparison of data based on the relevant special literature, archive photos and written documents, as well as on recent examples collected in the field. It discusses the following issues in connection with the gables examined: 1. The data collected by the authors confirm and add more precise details respectively to the unanimous statement of research workers that the appearance of Baroque gables on peasant house type dwellings in the towns of the Little Plain can be put at the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In the villages this took place from the second third of the 19th century to the end of the 1920s. 2. The processes of development towards a bourgeois a civilization, the building materials and masters available, the immediate archetypes and examples had collectively influenced the spread of the Baroque style and its appearance in peasant architecture. Religious affiliation did not necessarily affect the spread of the style. The taste of the social groups in direct contact with the peasantry, not far from them in status and of the next category above them respectively, had a much greater effect on it. This is confirmed by some citations from the general theory of fashion and a case study presented by the authors. 3. In a representative collection of samples the authors managed to separate the subtypes of Baroque gables in the Little Plain and to point out differences in time and space between these subtypes with the help of a special system of codes and tables.