New Title: ANATOLIAN CARPETS
from the collection of the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu (Gdańsk 2013)
This is the accompanying catalogue of the major exhibition of Gdansk (November 2013 – February 2014). The work is a tribute to the beauty of the Anatolian rugs in the Brukenthal Museum and of the Churches in Transylvania where they survived:
Foreword by Bishop Reihart Guob, Bishop of the Evangelic-Lutheran Church in Romania;
Ottoman Rugs and the Evangelic-Lutheran Church of the Transylvanian Saxons by Pastor Kilian Dörr & Frank-Thomas Ziegler (Custodian of the Brukenthal Collections);
The Protestant Churches of Transylvania and the Ottoman Rugs by Stefano Ionesc;
History of the carpet collection of the Brukenthal National Museum by Dr. Alexandru Sonoc;
Catalogue.
The book is illustrated with the best photos ever published about this textile treasure:
- 24 full page photos of Anatolian rugs exhibited in Gdańsk;
- other 21 photos of rugs and fragments of the Brukenthal collection;
- 4 great rugs sourced in Transylvania now in Museum collections;
- 30 photos of Lutheran Churches in Transylvania;
- 2 paintings showing Anatolian rugs;
- detailed notes and a new theory of the design origins of the ‘Transylvanian’ group;
- 196 pages, hardbound.
“….an excellent piece of work and a genuinely beautiful book. I am very appreciative of good work.” Jon Thompson
To order the book: please contact info@transylvanianrugs.com
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