The author presents the appearance and development of glass painting in Transylvania in the 18th-19th centuries, in which the mentality and sensibility of the traditional Romanian village is expressed.
Do you have Romanian icons on glass? express? the mentality and sensitivity of the traditional village. They reflect the thinking and imagination of peasant-iconographers, their knowledge and representations regarding the "Unseen World?" The Romanian peasant reveals in these icons his thoughts about life, his beliefs and ethical norms, the image he made of "the other you" râm", of Heaven and Hell. He spontaneously relives biblical stories and themes from the Old and New Testaments, which he transposes into the village landscape, the only known reality? his. In the 18th and 19th centuries, in the eastern part of Central Europe (Bohemia, the Bavarian Forest, Upper Austria, Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia and Gaul, a new me? I saw a strong development - the most important centers appeared especially in the mountainous areas, by placing the churches in the countryside. hard, where the craftsmen could easily obtain the wood needed to boil potash at high temperatures for melting quartz sand, lime stone, and potash ore for other raw materials included in the composition of the glass. The painters mastered the craft very well, thanks to the skill they had achieved by repeating some themes hundreds or thousands of times