The Selection of Saints in the Narthex of Saint George’s Church at Voroneț Monastery: A Case Study on the Transmission of Religious Models from the Balkans towards Moldavia during the 15th Century
The Selection of Saints in the Narthex of Saint George’s Church at Voroneț Monastery: A Case Study on the Transmission of Religious Models from the Balkans towards Moldavia during the 15th Century

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the 15th c., the Moldavian ecclesiastical and cultural environment encouraged the assimilation of models promoted in centres like Tarnovo and Ohrid, in literature and art alike. Portraits of saints who enjoyed large popularity during the last century of independence of the Balkan Christians, whose Lives were subjected to changes, by rewriting or adapting older versions during the 14th c., or whose hagiographies were translated during this late period, have found their place in the narthex of St. George’s church at Vorone? Monastery (ca. 1496). Besides the evaluation of the literary corpus available in Menaia and liturgical Sborniki, careful observation of the iconographic peculiarities related to each holy figure allowed us to add new information about the place of some of the highly revered Balkan saints in the liturgical and artistic practice of the Moldavian churches, at the beginning of the Post-Byzantine era.

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