Touristic informations
HUMOR MONASTERY.
Painted on the outside from
the eaves down to the foundations, Humor monastery (6 km from the
locality Gura Humorului) looks like a page of a manuscript covered with
miniatures, left-lying on a lawn.
Founded by
voivode Petru Rares and by chancellor Theodor in 1530, the church is
small, with a wide open porch, arched on three sides. The same as the
vault at Moldovita, the Humor one seems to be floating, which makes it
greatly admired by specialists.
The exterior
painting is impressive for its compositions and portraits. The Southern
wall displays the composition painted after the poem written by
patriarch Serghie of Constantinople and dedicated to the Virgin Mary
who saved the city during the attack of the Persians in 626. At Humor
this poem, represented in embroideries, miniatures and mediaeval
frescoes, has 24 scenes.
Under the
images of the poem a historical scene is in the siege of
Constantinople, designed to evoke the mediaeval belief in
miracle-working icons, and the people's wish to defeat the Turks Hatred
for the enemy was so fierce that the hope in a miracle made the
painters of Humor and Moldovita paint a defeat of the Turks, instead of
a certified historical event.
Humor monastery played an important part in the history of Romanian
culture. As early as the 15th century at Humor there was a workshop
where miniature painters and calligraphers worked, where a beautiful
Gospel
was achieved in which a famous
miniature has been preserved, representing Stephen the Great.
Touristic Sights in
Bucovina: Arbore Church,
Bălineşti Church, Cacica,
Ciprian Porumbescu,
Câmpulung
Moldovenesc, Dragomirna Monastery, Fălticeni, Humor Monastery, Moldoviţa
Monastery, Marginea,
Pătrăuţi Church,
Probota Monastery,
Putna Monastery,
Râşca
Monastery, Rădăuţi,
Suceviţa
Monastery, Solca
,Siret, Slatina Monastery,
Suceava, Vatra Dornei, Voroneţ Monastery.