Touristic informations
VORONEŢ MONASTERY.
Voronet is a fairyland world painted on a patch of sky. In the
middle of a village lying at the foot of the mountains, amid In tries
and oak-trees, amid little houses with whitewashed walls and florid
verandahs, a little church has been standing for about 500 years, a
princely shrine, wrapped from top to bottom in the gorgeous attire of
frescoes.
Voronet — was built in three months, three weeks, in
1488 by Stephen the Great and painted on the outside in the time of
ruling prince Petru Rares. Hundreds of paintings ranging from the frail
child — the symbol of the soul in the scene of the Last Judgment, to
the immense composition "Jesse's Tree" everything develops amid an
explosion of blue.
Voronet represents a new facet of Byzantine art.
While advancing North, Byzantine art halted here, in the shade of the
Carpathians to receive the baptism of folk lyricism. The Romanians lent
it softness and warmth, replacing its sternness with warm humanism, the
grace and humor peculiar to these places. The colors were stolen from
nature, the sky, the flowers, the forests were the guides of the
Moldavian painters. That is why the angels have the sweet faces of
Moldavian women, the archangels blow the "bucium" — a Romanian
shepherd's musical instrument, like an Alpenhorn — at the Last
Judgment, and the souls carried to heaven are wrapped in Moldavian
towels, while the souls doomed to the fire of Gehenna wear the turbans
of the Turks (Moldavia's enemies at the time).
The simplest and most dramatic composition is "The
Last Judgment" which decorates the whole Western façade.
The Southern wall displays "Jesse's Tree", the
fabulous genealogy of Jesus. A fresco including eight registers and
almost 100 personages develops in a luxurious interweaving of vine
branches and tendrils.
On the Northern wall, more exposed to the in
clemencies of the weather, there are still a few scenes representing
the Creation of the World, and a popular legend "Adam's Deed", a
compact between Adam and the Devil, a legend painted on Sucevita and
Moldovita monasteries, too.
This huge film unfolds itself against a blue
dominant. It is the "Voroneţ blue", an artistic definition included
today in the publications of international art, next to Veronese green
and Titian red, etc.
Round the church a wall was raised to protect and
better preserve this monument.
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.
