O scenă de luptă inspirată de cucerirea cetăţii Buda de către austrieci (1686) în colecţia Muzeului Naţional Brukenthal din Sibiu

  • Subiect: A battle scene inspired by the conquest of the Buda fortress by the Austrians (1686) in the Collection of the Brukenthal National Museum of Sibiu The battle scenes by Johann Ferdinand Kien, an Austrian painter documented at ca. 1682-1730 shows a fight between Austrian cuirassiers and Ottoman sipahis (among them also Tatars). The details of the landscape (a fortress occupied by the Ottomans to the left, a large plain with some hills in the background and a volcano shaped hill to the right), as well as the death of an old high rank Ottoman dignitary, which according to the number of the horse-tail standards (tuğlar) can be identified as a beylerbeyi and the various Ottoman banners (bayraklar) captured by the cuirassiers was an indication that the work depicts two different events of the siege of the Ottoman fortress Budin (Buda) in 1686: the capture of a lot of Ottoman banners in a fight against sipahis and Tatars (14 August) and the death of Arnavut Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha, governor of Buda and Aleppo (2 September). In fact, the last event occurred at the Anjou bastion, on the north-western side of the fortress. The two tours depicted by the artist (but inaccurately) are situated actually near the Great Rondella from the southern side of the fortress: the Stephan’s Tower and a macetower near to the Ferdinand gate. Thus, the battle field is seen from the hills of Buda towards the Danube, with the Citadell’s Hill (Budavári Hegy) to the left and St. Gerard’s Hill (Gellért-hegy) to the right. The still existing ruins of the fortress and the comparison with old views of Buda (from the early and late 17th century), with other depictions of this siege, as well as with a map from 1905 confirm the location of the depicted battle scene.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Patrimoniu
  • Vezi publicația: Acta Terrae Fogarasiensis: ActaTF
  • Editura: ALTIP
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2014
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: 3; anul 2014
  • Paginaţia: 491-514
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