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The ideological character of the mural painting.
Authors: Tsiodoulos, Stefanos
Reviewer: Sampanikou, Evangelia
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > CULTURAL HISTORY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY AND ART
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY OF MATERIAL CULTURE
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > OTTOMAN HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > MODERN HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > HISTORY OF ART
Keywords:
Neohellenic Art
Post-byzantine Civilization
Secular Painting
Relations Between Secular And Religious Painting
Decorative Painting
Naive Art
Late Ottoman History
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Abstract:
Around 1800, in the Balkans territory, the theme that monopolizes decorative surfaces and ornamental ensembles is Constantinople, the capital of the Empire, the political, administrative, economic and religious centre that would become overwhelmed with imperial traditions for centuries to come. Constantinople is an undeniable attraction for all of the empire’s nationals. Illustrations of Istanbul would dominate the decorative ensembles in Balkan mansions for a period of at least one hundred years. Illustrations centred on the capital perfectly express the recreation of specific ideological forms associated with the city’s functions as the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Alongside depictions of Constantinople are illustrations of European cities. These illustrations reflect social fantasies and illusions of an amalgamated Greek society, which is directly linked to the collective representations of admirable sites and ideal places. In folk art, there is equally a scientific yet ideological penetration of Western thought in the Turkish invaded-Greek region. There are three representative examples: An illustration of the heliocentric system, a representation of Napoleon and a pictorial display of Riga’s “Charter of Greece.” First let’s consider the illustration of the heliocentric system. In the third quarter of the 19th century there is a depiction of a heliocentric system in a home of the Zagori region. Already, this illustration shows a half century prior to the seraglio of Mukhtar Pasha in the city of Ioannina. Moreover, technological and scientific discoveries always provoked great admiration in the world. The art creation of the heliocentric system found in a house of the Zagori region certainly used a copper-engraving model.
Linguistic Editors: Karampalis, Spyridon
Technical Editors: Zinas, Nikolaos
Graphic Editors: Koumartzis, Nikolaos
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Spatial Coverage: Mainland Greece
Temporal Coverage: 19th century
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/3932
Bibliographic Reference: Tsiodoulos, S. (2015). The ideological character of the mural painting. [Chapter]. In Merantzas, C., Zarra, I., & Tsiodoulos, S. 2015. FROM POST-BYZANTINE TO MODERN CIVILIZATION [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/3932
Language: Greek
Is Part of: FROM POST-BYZANTINE TO MODERN CIVILIZATION
Number of pages 19
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions