Kiss Imola - Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Arhitectura religioasă medievală din Transilvania (Satu Mare, 1999)
Ileana Burnichioiu: Despre tipologizare în arhitectură: Bisericile gotice din Transilvania cu închideri de altar în ax
Pl. IV. 21. Capela castelului din Hunedoara; 21 The chapel from the castle of Hunedoara 22. Răspândirea în Transilvania a bisericilor cu sanctuare închise axial printr-un număr par de laturi. 22. The spreading of Transilvania 's gothic churches with axial dosing of apse. About the Architectural Typology’: Transylvanian Gothic Churches with Axial Closing of Apsis (Summary) The paper presents a study of the case regarding typology as a method of work in both old architecture and historical research. The subject of the work is a pattern of Gothic church with axial closing of altar, which was built with an even number of sides - four of a hexagon or an octagon or six of a decagon. The type was used in the whole Gothic area, but less than polygonal apse with the uneven number of sides. The author points out positive and negative aspects of this typology that was gradually created by historians of medieval architecture. With this end in view we watched the circumstances in which the series came into sight: to whom is due to, what is containing and the method that is was created. The debated typology is the partial one that took this into consideration, especially the churches considered to be Romanian ones. This fact has had consequences into interpretation of this type of building. The author notices that the variant of the plan discussed here it is found again at about 19 from Transylvania's Medieval churches, both Orthodox and Roman-Catholic or Reform ones. It is belonging of a wider Gothic area besides the others polygonal plans and this one cannot have ethnically or confessional meaning promoted by Gothic architecture. In the same time, the author criticized the theory in keeping with the spreading of this construction type in Transylvania is owned by a local prototype which has been the chapel castle from Hunedoara. But this type of building cannot have an exclusive territorial starting point; anyway, it is not Transylvania or Hunedoara area the starting point. First of all, the chapel castle of Hunedoara is dated later than the oldest church of our series: St. Nicholas church from Hunedoara. Here archaeological research, from the last years, it took also chronological changes and the monument is keeping the data from the 14-th century. The paper delt to the purpose of typology achievment for the categories of the material objects. The processing of the chronological frame is on from the major intentions of the typology elaboration. In this case, the present series who is worked a lot in the literature of specialty is actually un-used. Leaving aside is one partially, the reserarch extend of its components is very different. At this basis there were formal criteria who wasn 1 been confirm frequently with other analysis type. The typologies are
