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The article examines a specific role of medieval architectural language at the 1900 Paris World Exposition. Two ephemeral buildings evocated the presence of the history in a seemingly similar way: partial citations from different epochs - with a specific stress put on the Middle Ages - were mixed together to make stunning ensembles. The similarity of approach and overall impression hid cardinal differences...
The article offers a brief review of the ideas associated in older and more recent literature with the repeated compositions and motifs of martyrdom, the original understanding of them and their historical functions. The first part considers general ideas, while the second part is more directly concerned with visual analysis of the medieval pictures from selected locations in Slovakia.
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