Ioan Ovidiu Abrudan

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu · Department of Orthodox Theology

This article explores the development of the theme of the Life-giving Spring in Byzantine iconography. The path towards its establishment was initiated at the moment when a representation rule, an original convention was set. Thereafter, because of its diffusion in time and space, the theme became enriched by particular mentalities and sensibilitie...

This article presents an important document relating to the history of an Orthodox church in Sibiu (Biserica din Groapă), whose construction was possible due to the support provided by the family of the wealthy Macedonian-Romanian merchant Hagi Constantin Pop, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After a thorough description of the document,...

In the specific case of the Orthodox churches of Romania, the author wishes to analyze the information concerning the popular ritual which consists in the voluntarily removal of the eyes (or of the mouth) of the saints painted on the church walls, from the perspective of the dynamic relations established between the official dogma and the religious...

This paper aims to emphasize a specific aspect in the evolution of the architecture of churches built by Romanian Orthodox or Greek-Catholic communities in the Sibiu region, in the second half of the eighteenth century and during the nineteenth century. More exactly, it is the widespread presence, in the ecclesiastical architecture of that county,...

In the nave of the Church in the Pit, the oldest Orthodox worship place of Sibiu, three beautiful portraits were placed in 1831 and left there until three decades ago, when they were moved to be "protected". Painted on canvas, in the manner of Western art, they represent the three main founders of the church: Stana Hagi Petru Luca, Hagi Constantin...