Ceramics Praises the Psalms.”The Holy Trinity” Church from Siret
Ceramics Praises the Psalms.”The Holy Trinity” Church from Siret

Summary/Abstract: ”The Holy Trinity” (”Sfânta Treime”) church from Siret by tradition,should be the oldest monument in the form a clover of the religious architectureof Moldavia.By its architectural and decorative elements, the exterior of this church entirelyforeshadows the artistic virtues of monuments from the time of Petru I Muşat.Therefore, the apses have a series of niches elongated at their edges withsemicircular arches and decorated in tambourines with bricks.Values are plan and decoration items speaking about relations with theByzantine-Balkan world.The outside consisting of rough gray-green stone of the monument is refreshed bya bright and harmonious scenery of ceramic ornaments made out of bricks, legdiscs in the form of mushrooms and cruciform colored flowers.At the top of the monument, about two thirds of the height of the walls (from thepedestal upwards), there can be seen a frieze consisting of two rows of discsalternating with cruciform flowers. They range from the apses (the south side aswell) all the way up to the window of the narthex. The semicircular arches of brickniches are also sharpened by a row of discs alternating with cruciform flowers.The windows with the exception of the one of the northern apse are decorated atthe top with one rectangular frame consisting of two rows of glazed discs and threecruciform flowers, all framed by glazed bricks (either plain or coloured). The samedecoration can also be seen at the niche above the entrance door destined for thechurch icon. Above this frame, there can be seen a cornice made out of bricksarranged in a zig zag pattern.The continuous development and enrichment of the ceramic façade duringthe next century will lead to the finishing touches, in the reign of Stefan celMare (Stephen the Great), of a harmonious and original decorative.

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