VIDZEME SONGBOOK AND ITS COMPILERS: QUESTIONS POSED BY A GROUP PORTRAIT PAINTED IN 1908 (Vidzemes Dziesmu gramata un tas sastaditaji: 1908. gada gleznota grupas portreta uzdotie jautajumi)

• Authors: Sparitis Ojars
• Languages of publication: LV

Abstracts

EN

The article explores a pastors' group portrait painted by the noted Latvian artist Teodors Uders in 1908. The painting shows thirteen Lutheran pastors of different generations posing with a Bible and Vidzeme Songbook first published in 1889. The author traces each pastor's personality and contribution to the development of Latvian language and sacred literature in the context of national awakening as well.

Keywords

EN

LATVIAN CULTURE; LATVIAN LANGUAGE; NATIONAL AWAKENING; SACRED LITERATURE; TEODORS UDERS; VIDZEME SONGBOOK

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Art History of the Latvian Academy of Art and Art History Research Support Foundation
• Journal: Makslas Vesture un Teorija
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 42-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sparitis Ojars

• Ojars Sparitis, Latvian Academy of Art, Kalpaka bulvaris 13, Riga LV-1867, Latvia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11LVAAAA089826