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- Title
MAPS FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19<sup>TH</sup> CENTURY IN THE BRUKENTHAL LIBRARY.
- Authors
TEUCEANU, Radu
- Abstract
This article is aboutmaps from the first half of the 19th century, extant in the cartographic cabinet of the Brukenthal Library. They are both black and white and coloured. Several spectacular pieces are included. Nonetheless, they have never properly been bound together in one separate portfolio. This period, especially the one between 1815 and 1848 (the „Vormärz”), has traditionally been seen as one of reactionary, repressive politics, and less cultural and societal tendency towards progress and less attention has been paid to any kind of achievements in general. Thus, artifacts produced in Central Europe and Transylvania have been even more neglected, as the history of the central area of our continent in the first half of the 19th century was later associated with an image of 'a picturesque asylum of the past, even if a temporary one'. As to the maps specifically, they most probably entered the funds of the museum by way of donations, assets, and legacies. They could be promoted in order to raise the prestige of the museum and to make them more known to researchers.
- Subjects
MAPS; CENTRAL Europe antiquities; HISTORY of Transylvania, Romania
- Publication
Acta Musei Brukenthal, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
1842-2691
- Publication type
Article