Sucevita Monastery, Bucovina

Sucevita Monastery - details and images

Built four centuries ago, the royal command, as a fortress that can not penetrate the foot of the pagan, Sucevita Monastery, with its towers and walls, the church and hundreds of his paintings that cover the exterior walls, is one gem Bukovina and feudal art pinnacle of moldovenesti.Legenda site says, to motivate mystery left unpainted portions of the wall, she stayed during ctitoririi monastery, when scaffolding collapsed and died painter buried under its debris.

Movilesti church is surrounded by high walls 6 m thick and about 3 meters, with buttresses and watch roads on all sides. On the east side of the enclosure wall are lined with houses that belong Movilesti times and on the north - east to see the foundations of other houses. In the south-west can see traces of some monastic cells. The enclosure includes an imposing tower clopodnita, quadrilateral, supported by buttresses. Since the previous floor there are two bells during Movilesti. The other towers were built with an octagonal plan. Sucevita preserved architectural elements known from the Stefan cel Mare, scientist combined with reasons of time and Lapusneanu Rares rulers. Keeping trefoil, buttresses and lateral apses church resembles all too much with the other buildings Moldovan. Apses of elongated Firidele - arranged in number 11 to the eastern and far-lateral apses 5 to remember the fifteenth century architecture. The interior consists of porch, narthex, nave and altar. Jeremiah Pridvorurile built during heap containing architectural elements from Wallachia.

The painting, done in fresco, was executed two Moldovan painters, John Painter and his brother Sofronie, and is preserved in its original form. Iconographic program of interior and exterior painting tradition established in the first jumatatee meet the XVI century - the era of Petru Rares - but also introduces some new themes, theological-dogmatic nature, as Conca scene of the nave, representing liturgical anthem "One Born ... " and other representations of the Trinity.

Sucevita monastery possesses a collection of objects of artistic and cultural brawl exposed the current museum, the former council hall of the monastery, located on the east side of the enclosure. Among the remarkable exhibits some exceptional value embroideries, dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth century during the reign of Stephen the Great and Jeremiah heap, worked with gold thread, silver, silk and pearls. The most important pieces are portraits of Jeremiah and Simeon heap and an epitaph with pearls, silver plated tetraevangheliarele sealed, an ark donated by Metropolitan George heap.

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