Iconografia Sfantului Florian pe medalioanele steagurilor istorice. Studiu comparativ / The Iconography of Saint Florian on the Medallions of Historical Flags. Comparative study. Comparative study

Abstract

In this paper, the author presents a comparative study on the medallions of 9 historical !ags of "re-"ghters, wheelwrights and farriers from di#erent towns in Timiș County. %e iconographic study of the medallions, exclusively those dedicated to the spiritual patron, Saint Florian, contains data about the morphological structure of composition, the symbolic elements represented, chromatic, execution technique and the current state of conservation according to age, functional wear and way of preservation. Saint Florian is associated, in the Central and Eastern Europe, with the extinction of "re. %e Saint is depicted in clothing of a Roman centurion commander (company), holding a red !ag in a hand and with the other one pouring water from a wash tub on a building in !ames. Only in three localities from Banat is found the statue representing Saint Florian: Jimbolia, Aradul Nou and Zădăreni. %e civil volunteer "re-"ghters brigade (Önkéntes Polgári Tűzoltókar) from Arad, the "rst one of its kind in Banat, established in 1861 among its rules, that the "re-"ghter !ag must depict Saint Florian as well as the text „Egy Mindnyájunkrt, Mindnyájant Egyért” (One for All, All for One).