Un cycle hagiographique peu étudié de la peinture extérieure moldave: La vie de saint Pacôme le Grand / A Less Studied Hagiographical Cycle of Moldavian Exterior Painting: The Life of SaintPachomius the Great

• Main Author: Constantin Ciobanu
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Artes 2017-11-01
• Series: Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art
• Subjects: Antoine le Grand; monastère de Humor; Pacôme le Grand; églises peintes du nord de la Moldavie; monastère de Suceviţa; monastère de Voroneţ
• Online Access: http://anastasis-review.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IV-2-Constantin-Ciobanu-BDT.pdf
• ISSN: 2392-862X; 2392-9472

The present study focuses on a less studied hagiographic cycle of Moldavian exterior painting: The Life of St. Pachomius the Great. This cycle is rare in Christian painting and it should not be confused with the frequent images of St. Pachomius alone or of the Apparition of the Angel to St. Pachomius. Thus, in the sixteenth century in Moldavia, the cycle of the life of St. Pachomius was preserved only in the exterior paintings of the monasteries of Humor and Suceviţa. Research has shown that the last scene in the life of St. Pachomius of Suceviţa was inspired by a similar scene painted about half a century earlier in 1547 on the northern wall of St. George’s Church in the Monastery of Voroneţ. It is true that in Voroneţ this scene illustrates (incorrectly) a sequence of the life of Saint Anthony, whose hagiography, as evidenced by literary sources, does not include the odd episode with the lifting of the oak leaf.