Pictura bisericească exprimă credința comună a Bisericii Ortodoxe prin fidelitate tradițională și libertate misionară
The church painting conveys the common faith of the Orthodox Church by means of traditional fidelity and missionary freedom

Summary/Abstract: The 8th edition of the National Conference entitled Dogmatic unity and national specific character in the church painting organized by the Romanian Patriarchate, through the agency of the Department of culture and religious heritage, the church painting Committee, in pannership with the State Secretariate for Cults, intends to answer, from an interdisciplinary perspective - historical, theological and artistical, - to some necessities felt in the field of church painting and restoration, to bring up the subject of practical rules and basic principles necessary in the field of the church fine arts and restoration, so as to make possible the fulfilment of the liturgical and dogmatical function of a dwelling of cult. The conference is an inaugural approach to attaining two necessary objectives that the church painting committee is trying to materialize with the help of some well-known specialists, viz.: the making of an iconographic Guide for the church painters and the servants of the holy altars, and the realization of a standard for restoring the church heritage in the cult. The Conference is a good occasion for sketching, by means of scientific works which are to be given, of some preceding theses necessary for the attainment of the two assumed objectives, and for gathering suggestion and questions which are to ensure the connection to the real needs of the guild of the new Iconographic Guide, by means of the filling in by the specialists present at the conference of a question- na'ive drawn up with that end in view. Meeting some real needs of our Church, the Restoration Standard aims at fixing and implementing some basic principles and practical rules destined, on the one hand, to avoid the distortion of the original aspect of the pictural ensemble, and, on the other hand, to make possible the achievement of the liturgical and dogmatical function of the mural ensemble, avoiding the transformation of the liturgical and community space into a picture-gallery.

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