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A reverse painted depiction of the nativity, popular art from early to mid 20th century in Transylvania. Reverse glass painting is the quintessential Romanian folk art and as a medium of folk expression was vehicle for the peasant artist to express a native love of colour and abstract pattern.
The peasants bought these at markets and decorated their home with them, the paintings were copied from religious prints, serious looking engraved images in black and white, coming from a Protestant tradition we English might find these paintings lacked seriousness but for the typical Romanian religion was a colourful affair and the characters and saints brought comfort and cheer not censure or self-denial. As has been noted before their culture looked East towards India as much as it was also European.
Transylvania early 20th cent
H: 46.5cm (18.3in)
W: 36.5cm (14.4in)
D: 1cm (0.4in)
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