Ana Maria Gruia - "Saint George on Medieval Stove - PATZINAKIA

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<strong>Ana</strong> <strong>Maria</strong> <strong>Gruia</strong> indicative of one of the styles. It does not mean that each element triggers a qualification of western or eastern, but they do belong to one more than to the other and their accumulation is meant to ease the decision. All the details of arms, armor and tack (except for the ubiquitous spear and reins) are in the western group. All the saintly elements, plus the mantle, the decorative elements and the schematic character of images, are in the eastern group. (see plate 2). Observing first the distribution of the two groups according to province, one sees that the greatest difference between the two occurs in Transylvania: on these tiles, one may find 91 Western elements, compared to merely 12 eastern ones. As a group therefore, the tiles from Transylvania look much more western. In Moldavia and Wallachia, the proportions are not so differentiated, meaning that they display elements from both traditions, but still more from the western one. Another observation is that the tiles from Transylvania are “realistic” and detailed, since they contain the highest proportion of elements: 143 on 15 tiles, that is, an average of 10 elements per each tile. The proportion is lower in Wallachia: 110 elements on 21 tiles (on average 5 on each). The most schematic, but also the most fragmentary, are the tiles from Moldavia, containing 85 elements on 27 tiles (on average 3 on each). 16 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 91 Western elements 35 49 12 Eastern elements 21 36 40 Other elements 29 25 Moldavia Transylvania Walachia Plate 2. Distribution of western and eastern elements according to province/state Transylvania Moldavia Walachia
<strong>Saint</strong> <strong>George</strong> on Medieval Stove Tiles from Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia But the point of the counting was not to make general statements, in fact rather visible from the start, but to help decide in each case. Comparing thus the number of each group of elements in the case of each entry, I have assigned the tiles either a western or a eastern appearance, admitting in a number of cases that it is impossible to draw a line, since not enough information was available or since there occurred the same number of elements from the two groups. (see figure 3). It results that in Transylvania there are no ambiguous cases, 13 western looking tiles and 2 eastern. In Moldavia one finds the most numerous undecided cases (10), 12 western tiles and 5 eastern ones. In Wallachia there are 3 unclear, 7 western and 11 eastern tiles. Overall, there are more western (32) than eastern tiles (18), but also a significant number of undecided cases (13). There is a slight ambiguity about some of the eastern-looking tiles, due to the extreme schematization of the images which might just as well indicate a popular production. T1 for example turned out as eastern according to the counting of elements, but this is rather due to the absence of any knightly elements. Tiles like W1, W2 or W9 turned out as western, although the western elements here are rather just suggested through decorative lines, unlike their realistic depictions of Transylvania. But such ambiguities are unavoidable in the case of items of rather artisan than artistic quality, worn out through transmission and not always available in the best quality reproductions. Tile ID Western vs eastern elements Type of the image T1 0-1 Eastern T2 6-1 Western T3 8-0 Western T4 9-0 Western T5 4-0 Western T6 9-1 Western T7 6-0 Western T8 5-1 Western T9 2-4 Eastern T10 7-1 Western T11 5-2 Western T12 9-1 Western T13 11-1 Western T14 5-0 Western T15 5-0 Western M1 0-0 Impossible to decide M2 Image unpublished Impossible to decide M3 2-0 Western M4 1-0 Western M5 Image unpublished Impossible to decide M6 0-2 Eastern M7 0-0 Impossible to decide 17
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