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As reflected by the emergence of architecture, painting and sculpture, the Transylvanian artistic development in the Middle Ages concentrated mainly on the closed relationship extent between the commissioner/donor and Church in a society centered by the place of worship.
The iconography of the epoch, the devotional imagery decorating the church interiors or Catholic liturgical items is mostly part of so-called International Gothic and envisages the importance of art in the context of the late medieval spirituality.
With the 16th century on, the Renaissance, Humanism and Reformation brought new influences in Transylvanian culture, the mergence of the innovative ideas being ulterior to the similar phenomena in the Central Europe, though. In comparison with the humanist development of an Italian influence around bishop seats, the Transylvanian cities remained closely connected to the German culture, under this respect.
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