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| Cherry blossoms and bunnies... 'Tis the season |
I do plan to paint this image, but do to finishing my next book, it will probably be by the Eastern Orthodox Easter.
Speaking of which, this is a good time to post some of the amazing art at the pained Monasteries in Romania.
Not only are there the ones dating back to the 1400s, but they are building new ones! Such a fascinating art form. It was nice to see the artist credits on the new ones.
Growing up catholic, it is interesting to see parallel but different imagery.
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| Judgement Day painting on the Voroneț Monastery done in 1547 |
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| Detail of the seraphim at the Humor Monastery painted in 1535 |
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| Lives of the saints or rather the martyrdom of them, Voroneț Monastery |
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| More seraphim at Voroneț Monastery |
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| A new depiction of Judgement Day |
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| Seraphim detail |
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| New Judgement Day at a church in Bucharest |
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| Detail of the Judgement Day painting in Bucharest. Ioana and I were pleased to see the artists credited inside. |
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| All of the Judgement Day paintings have the people being 'reconstituted', even if devoured by wild beasts. Such delightful imagery! |
My monastery sketches and more of my write ups are
here.
http://christinawald.blogspot.com/2014/11/trip-to-romania-part-3-painted.html
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| Me Sketching at Voronet |
We went to a lot of monasteries old and new. Of course the star monasatries are the old ones...
Above is Voronet Monastery in the Moldovan area of Romania. It was built in 1488 by Stephen the Great. The painting have survived war, weather and disuse. They are now restored including the paintings on the inside. They are not restoring the exterior paintings as far as I know which I think is a good thing.
This was the only place where we ran into an American tour group.
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| Detail from the exterior of Voronet. All of these churches have paintings of the Last Judgement... This is the place you want to avoid... |
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| Me sketching at Humor Monastary |
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| Detail of the battle in Constantinople. |
Above is the Humor Monastery, a painted monastery located in Mănăstirea Humorului. The frescoes were originally painted in 1535 and this one shows Constantinople defending itself from a Persian invasion in 626. The Persians were illustrated as Turks which is proof that the news is always prone to revisionism even if it is really old news
A lot of the monasteries had these cool seraphim images depicted as wing clusters with lots of eyeballs.
I know I have been slow to post these images. But there is MUCH more! Next up, the Merry Cemetery and a stones throw from the Ukraine border...
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