Szabó Sarolta (szerk.): Hagyomány és változás a népi kultúrában.(Jósa András Múzeum Kiadványai 58. Nyíregyháza, 2005)
NÉPRAJZ - Felhősné Csiszár Sarolta: Népművészetünk emlékei középkori templomaink falfestészetében a mai Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megyében
Sarolta F. Csiszár: Relics of Hungarian Folk Art on the Murals of the Churches in Today's Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County We find the first relics of Hungarian popular art on the walls of our mediaeval stone churches. At the church of Csaroda that turned Protestant in 1592, the existing murals were overpainted in 1642, and the church received its unique, popular flowery ornamentation at that time. The same motifs are found on the earlest carvings of shepherds and other objects of daily use. The ornamentation, meticuously executed in red and blue (tree of life, tulips and lillies) is along the longitudinal sides of the nave, on the two sides and the frame of the arch, and the wall segments above the pillars of the choir. Ornamentations similar to painted on the walls the church of Csaroda in the 17 th century are on the walls of the Roman Catholic church of Ófehértó, constructed in Roman style in 1137. The original murals were overpainted in the 1640s, when the portraits of the saints were whitewashed and colourful flowery ornamentation was applied. The ornamentations are almost perfectly identical with those on the walls of the Protestant church of Marokpapi. The church of Sonkád was erected in late Gothic style in the 15 th century, and when it was redecorated in the 18 th century, the popular ornamentation, spreading with the Protestatism, was introduced. The church of Lónya received similar ornamentation in the 16 th or 17 th century. Archeological research into our mediaeval churches revealed new evidence that show how deep the roots of Hungarian popular ornamentation are. The patterns and motifs seen on the walls of churches are the same as those on wooden utility objects and textiles. The yare there on the most beautiful embroideries of the aristocracy, on the emboridered canvas sheets of the peasants, and even on the emborideries of the lesser nobility of the 20 th century.
