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- Title
Medieval Floor Mosaics at Bizere Monastery.
- Authors
BURNICHIOIU, ILEANA; RUSU, ADRIAN ANDREI
- Abstract
Bizere monastery is one of the medieval monasteries founded in Arad County which almost completely disappeared between the sixteenth century and the present day. Its site was gradually identified approximately 15 kilometers from Arad, south of the Mureş Valley, on the territory of Frumuşeni village. The positions of both surfaces with mosaics, the great number of fragments typical of the pavement discovered within the perimeter, and their diversity in shape (eight-shaped, half circles, almonds, quadrangular slabs of stone, circle segments, other geometric shapes) indicate that the church was entirely covered with mosaics of at least two types. The mosaics at Bizere, created by masters who must have had a Benedictine connection, contain certain interpretations of Byzantine motifs and a series of traits also shared by floor mosaics in the Adriatic area. Nevertheless, they differ from the latter in style, iconography and technique. The polychromy, the quality of the drawings and arrangements between geometrical frames and their motifs (vegetal or figurative), the uniform distribution of colors within the frame of the drawings, the creatures of the bestiary which populate the nave's mosaic together with vegetal ornaments, and the uncommon relief revealed a mature level of floor mosaic art in Romanesque style.
- Subjects
ARAD (Romania); ROMANIA; MOSAIC floors; MONASTERIES; POLYCHROMY; PAVEMENTS; MIDDLE Ages; ROMANESQUE art
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article