Arheologia artei și istoriile unui monument: o pictură inedită de Hermann Meuselbach (1888) cu turnul cetății din Săsciori

The Archaeology of Art and the History of a Monument: An Unpublished Painting by Hermann Meuselbach (1888) of the Fortress Tower in Săsciori Abstract. The painter Hermann Meuselbach (1858–1924) worked for more than four decades in Sebeș, many of his works illustrating a heritage that today is of interest for the accuracy of his drawings. A favourite subject of Meuselbach’s paintings was the medieval fortress of Săsciori. A new painting from 1888 of the recently discovered Gothic tower of the citadel is the pretext for a foray into the “archaeology of art”. Also presented is a history of the medieval monument, with the stories and legends surrounding it, a fortress datable to the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, identified with castrum Petri and probably Saxobanya in medieval documents. Today a large courtyard with two towers, one with a gate, is preserved. The fortress has not benefited from archaeological excavations, but neither has there been any interest in its preservation.