Ceramica medievală transilvăneană. Câteva consideraţii

  • Subiect: Transylvanian medieval ceramics. Few considerations Ceramics, the art of clay, „is that multimillenary craft which, by some ancient myths and popular beliefs, was stolen by humans from the divinity, using fire to give speech and soul to vessels”.The name of ceramics has its origin in the Greek word „keramos” which contains the notion of ripening and also the plasticity character of the clay. By ceramics „it’s understood a complex of materials which are based on some compounds of aluminum silicate, meaning of clay, in a condition more or less cleanse. The clays are also used mixed with other substances, giving birth to different ceramics categories”.Until the wanted ceramics item is obtained a long process was covered, a process containing more steps: choosing the raw materials, cleaning, leavening, kneading, formation, drying, cooking using the oven, the way of settlement of the vessels in the oven, the burning and the way of removing the vessels from the oven.At the beginning, the way of processing the clay was by hand and later by using potter’s wheel.The ceramics specific to Făgăraş County was: „the ceramics with blue décor or polychrome, on a thin white-yellow layer of clay, being frequently common in Romanian traditional interiors”.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Patrimoniu-Heritage
  • Vezi publicația: Acta Terrae Fogarasiensis: ActaTF
  • Editura: Negru Vodă
  • Loc publicare: Făgăraş
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2018
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: 7; anul 2018
  • Paginaţia: 492-502
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