Popular Piety and the Paper Icons of Zaharija Orfelin
Abstract
The paper deals with the phenomenon of popular piety in the eighteenth century and its reflections in art media through several prints made by the Serbian engraver Zaharija Orfelin. Paper icons, the cheapest means of meeting the spiritual needs of Orthodox Serbs in Hungary in the eighteenth century, were mass produced and easy to transport to remotest places. As they were the main channels of expressing piety, it is not unexpected that some artists-entrepreneurs such as Orfelin started such a lucrative production. Orfelin shaped the iconography of those images, combining the traditional Orthodox heritage and contemporary Baroque models that had migrated from Central European religious art. His imagery included particular national saints and their patriotic cults, dogmatic and doctrinal views of the church, as well as images of the Mother of God.
Keywords:
Zaharija Orfelin (1726-1785) / the Metropolitanate of Karlovci (Karlowitz) / popular piety / paper icons / engravings / eighteenth centurySource:
Balcanica, 2020, 51, 45-64Publisher:
- Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti SANU - Balkanološki institut, Beograd
Institution/Community
Istorija umetnosti / History of ArtTY - JOUR AU - Simić, Vladimir PY - 2020 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3082 AB - The paper deals with the phenomenon of popular piety in the eighteenth century and its reflections in art media through several prints made by the Serbian engraver Zaharija Orfelin. Paper icons, the cheapest means of meeting the spiritual needs of Orthodox Serbs in Hungary in the eighteenth century, were mass produced and easy to transport to remotest places. As they were the main channels of expressing piety, it is not unexpected that some artists-entrepreneurs such as Orfelin started such a lucrative production. Orfelin shaped the iconography of those images, combining the traditional Orthodox heritage and contemporary Baroque models that had migrated from Central European religious art. His imagery included particular national saints and their patriotic cults, dogmatic and doctrinal views of the church, as well as images of the Mother of God. PB - Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti SANU - Balkanološki institut, Beograd T2 - Balcanica T1 - Popular Piety and the Paper Icons of Zaharija Orfelin EP - 64 IS - 51 SP - 45 DO - 10.2298/BALC2051045S ER -
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Simić, V.. (2020). Popular Piety and the Paper Icons of Zaharija Orfelin. in Balcanica Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti SANU - Balkanološki institut, Beograd.(51), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC2051045S
Simić V. Popular Piety and the Paper Icons of Zaharija Orfelin. in Balcanica. 2020;(51):45-64. doi:10.2298/BALC2051045S .
Simić, Vladimir, "Popular Piety and the Paper Icons of Zaharija Orfelin" in Balcanica, no. 51 (2020):45-64, https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC2051045S . .