Voronet Monastery
Painted church of 1488 in Bukovina, famous for its Last Judgement in Voronet blue.
The church of Saint George at Voronet was raised by Stephen the Great of Moldavia in 1488, reportedly built in three months and three weeks after a victory in battle. It follows the Moldavian plan of the period, with a trefoil nave, a tall drum over the crossing and a steep shingled roof, combining Gothic window and door frames with Byzantine proportions. A porch was added in the sixteenth century by the Metropolitan Grigorie Rosca, who also commissioned the painted decoration.
In about 1547 the exterior walls were covered with frescoes, an approach used at several Moldavian foundations to teach biblical narrative to congregations standing outside. The west wall carries a Last Judgement across its whole surface, set against an intense blue pigment that has become known as Voronet blue. Other walls show the Tree of Jesse, a calendar of saints and ranks of prophets and philosophers. Voronet is one of eight Churches of Moldavia listed by UNESCO, and has been a working convent again since 1991.
Highlights
- Last Judgement covering the entire west wall
- Exterior frescoes of about 1547 in the celebrated Voronet blue
- Church built for Stephen the Great in 1488
- One of the UNESCO-listed Churches of Moldavia
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