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Mount Athos in Balkan graphic representations of the 17th and 19th centuries

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• Deluga, Waldemar

The article deals with graphic representations of views of Holly Montagneand monasteries of the Athos peninsula, beginning with oldest prints fromItalian and Austrian workshop and reaching well in to XIXth century withobjects from Russia. The author looks for sources of tradition of depicting holyplaces, and finds them in Orthodox Church centres in Eastern Europe. In thePolish Lithuanian-Commonwealth and Kindom of Hungary the tradition ofsouvenirs made for pilgrims to centers of the cult of Virgin Mary had catholicroots. The oldest representation of Athos can be found in Les observations...by Pierre Belon du Mans from 1553. The engraving by Alexander della Viafrom the XVIIIth century is an exemple of a print not destined for a book.One of these prints is preserved in the Czartoryski Foundation Museum inCracow. Older prints depict monasteries of the Athos peninsula together withrepresentations of holly icons. One of the most interesting of the views ofAthos from the collection of National Library in Warsaw is the one by a monkfrom Athos. The original copper plate of this engraving is still kept in theSimono Petra monastery.

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