Research area and keywords of research:
The cultural features and relationships of East-Central Europe, the East-West Border Region - the art of the Byzantine church in the wider Carpathian region, in South Poland, in Ukraine and in the Kingdom of Hungary, primarily painting, the characteristics of the churches and equipment of the former Greek Catholic diocese of Munkács (Mukacheve).
(Keywords: post-Byzantine art, icon painting, byzantine iconography, byzantine church architecture, contemporary post-byzantine art in Hungary)
Name of the researcher(s) and research group:
Dr. Jankáné prof. dr. habil. Puskás Bernadett, PhD
Name of the Institute:
University of Nyíregyháza, Institute of Visual Culture
Research objectives:
The relics subsisting in the territory of the historical Diocese of Munkács (Mukacheve) are witness to the fact that although local peculiarities can be detected in this art, it is nevertheless tightly connected to the culture of the Byzantine-rite, and then later Greek Catholic bishoprics created in its vicinity to the North, East and South.
Description and results of research:
The research currently being conducted is aimed at as full as possible an acquaintance with the set of cultural artifacts that can be found in the possession of parish communities of the historical Mukachevo eparchy or that were acquired by collections in Hungary or elsewhere. The relics subsisting in the territory of the historical Diocese of Munkács (Mukacheve) are witness to the fact that although local peculiarities can be detected in this art, it is nevertheless tightly connected to the culture of the Byzantine-rite, and then later Greek Catholic bishoprics created in its vicinity to the North, East and South. The art of these bishoprics can be studied together, and may be considered as forming a larger and higher-level unit that can be clearly defined and distinguished from the more distant post-Byzantine spheres of art. In the late Middle Ages, in the Carpathian region, besides the western and eastern connections, the southern Balkan effects had a significant role in the post-Byzantine icon painting of the Hungarian and Polish Kingdom.
Research partners from other institutions:
Lviv: Sheptitsky National Museum, Kraków: Jagellonian University, UPJPII, Muzeum Narodowe, University of Prešov
Other information:-
Publications (max. 5):
- A görög katolikus egyház művészete a történelmi Magyarországon. Hagyomány és megújulás. Szent Atanáz Görög Katolikus Hittudományi Főiskola – Magyar Képek Kiadó, Budapest 2008, 1-320.
- „Questions Related to the Research of Greek Catholic Art: Debate about the Concept of the Carpathian Region and Its Lesson”, in Véghseő Tamás (szerk./ed.): Symbolae. Ways of Greek Catholic heritage research. Papers of the conference held on the 100th anniversary of the death of Nikolaus Nilles SJ – Symbolae. A görög katolikus örökségkutatás útjai. A Nikolaus Nilles SJ halálának 100. évfordulóján rendezett konferencia tanulmányai, Nyíregyháza 2010, (Collectanea Athanasiana - I. Studia, 3.) 123-140.
- Quelques données concernant les icones d'Ilia de Wisznia, peinre de Munkács. Alba Iulia_ APULUM L: pp. 47-70. (2013)
- Portreti grekokatolickih jepiskopiv XIX-XX stolit' u m. Nyíregyháza [Портрети греко-католицьких єпископів XIX-XX століть у м. Ніредьгаза] In: Coranic, Jaroslav (szerk.) Gréckokatolícka cirkev na Slovensku vo svetle vyrocí, Presov, Szlovákia: Prešovská Univerzita v Prešove, (2016) pp. 143-152. , 10 p.
- The Art of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo: Sacral Painting of the Eighteenth Century. In: Himka, John-Paul; Szabo, Franz AJ (ed.) Eastern Christians in the Habsburg Monarchy. Edmonton, Canada : CIUS Press (2021) pp. 102-136.