ĽUDOVÉ UMENIE BANÍKOV V ZBIERKE SLOVENSKÉHO BANSKÉHO MÚZEA

• Authors: Denková Zuzana

Title variants

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Miners’ folk art in the collections of Slovak Mining Museum

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The article presents artefacts of folk mining art in the collections of Slovak Mining Museum in Banská Štiavnica, such as sculptures of miners in home altars and nativity scenes, models of mines hidden in bottles, or models of the town’s architectural landmarks. We can further find there sacral folk oil paintings with mining motifs, or utility objects decorated with mining motifs like wall clocks, plates, jugs, walking sticks. The article also describes the most famous creators of folk mining art, the most used materials and basic production techniques.

Keywords

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FOLK ART; MINERS; SLOVAK MINING MUSEUM

• Publisher: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, o.z.
• Journal: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 137 – 151

Contributors

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Denková Zuzana

• Slovak Mining Museum, Kammerhofská 2, 969 01 Banská Štiavnica, Slovak Republic