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Rural Romania: Wolf People in Sheep's Clothing
Rural Romania: Wolf People in Sheep's Clothing
Maramures, Moldavia and Transylvania are regions which have retained an almost medieval simplicity and beauty. In secluded valleys bordered by the Carpathian Mountains and shaded by clouds of plum blossom lie villages with wooden churches and houses where ancient rituals, festivities, clothes and crafts are cherished. To educate this illiterate world the outer walls of late medieval monastic churches were covered with colourful religious frescoes. Here you can read excerpts of this feature.
[ROMANIA.MOLDAVIA 24.097] 'Following mass in the garden-2.'
While listening to the hymns of morning mass radiating from Sucevita's monastic church, a nun bows in front of a stone cross while others are meditating near the church's south wall. The wall is covered by an impressive Tree of Jesse showing the ancestry of Jesus. The fresco was painted by the brothers Ioan and Sofronie of Suceava. in 1595. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
While listening to the hymns of morning mass radiating from Sucevita's monastic church, a nun bows in front of a stone cross while others are meditating near the church's south wall. The wall is covered by an impressive Tree of Jesse showing the ancestry of Jesus. The fresco was painted by the brothers Ioan and Sofronie of Suceava. in 1595. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
![Smit & Palarczyk > [ROMANIA.MOLDAVIA 24.097] 'Following mass in the garden-2.'
While listening to the hymns of morning mass radiating from Sucevita's monastic church, a nun bows in front of a stone cross while others are meditating near the church's south wall. The wall is covered by an impressive Tree of Jesse showing the ancestry of Jesus. The fresco was painted by the brothers Ioan and Sofronie of Suceava. in 1595. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/140488044_EcZwv-L.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [ROMANIA.MOLDAVIA 24.097] 'Following mass in the garden-2.'
While listening to the hymns of morning mass radiating from Sucevita's monastic church, a nun bows in front of a stone cross while others are meditating near the church's south wall. The wall is covered by an impressive Tree of Jesse showing the ancestry of Jesus. The fresco was painted by the brothers Ioan and Sofronie of Suceava. in 1595. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
[ROMANIA.MOLDAVIA 24.097] 'Following mass in the garden-2.'
While listening to the hymns of morning mass radiating from Sucevita's monastic church, a nun bows in front of a stone cross while others are meditating near the church's south wall. The wall is covered by an impressive Tree of Jesse showing the ancestry of Jesus. The fresco was painted by the brothers Ioan and Sofronie of Suceava. in 1595. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
While listening to the hymns of morning mass radiating from Sucevita's monastic church, a nun bows in front of a stone cross while others are meditating near the church's south wall. The wall is covered by an impressive Tree of Jesse showing the ancestry of Jesus. The fresco was painted by the brothers Ioan and Sofronie of Suceava. in 1595. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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