stefan arteni

iconostases
a visual essay
Iconostasis fragments, Epirus, 17th century, Benaki museum, Athens
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreamottastockimages/3761034725/
II

solinvictus press 2011

Agios Irakleidos monastery, Cyprus, iconostasis and detail, probably 18th century
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7784598@N04/sets/72157603588386609/with/2185375991/
 St Paraskeva, St Nicholas and Holy Apostles wood church, Marita, Romania, built in the 16th century?
http://www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Biserica%20de%20lemn%20Cuvioasa%20Par
aschiva%20/19152
 Detail, St Paraskeva, St Nicholas and Holy Apostles wood church, Marita, Romania, built in the 16th century?
http://www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Biserica%20de%20lemn%20Cuvioasa%20Paraschiva%20/19152
Church of the Resurrection, Rostov,
Russia, 17th century
Detail, Church of the Resurrection, Rostov,
Russia, 17th century
Dragomirna monastery, Romania, early 17th century amfostacolo.ro/user-
foto.php?uid=5274&din=mini-intalnirea-afa-...
St Paraskevi church, built in 1677, Siatista, Greece
www.windmillstravel.com/album.php?id=49&destin
ation=31&destina...
Patriarchate of Pec,
church of St
Nicholas,
painted in the 17th
century by Radul
zographer,
1677 iconostasis
http://www.srpskobl
ago.org/Archives/Pe
c/exhibits/StNichola
sChurch/index.html
Nativity of Christ church, Arbanasi, Bulgaria, 17th century, photo Klearchos Kapoutsis
Cotroceni church iconostasis, Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania (the church was built in the 17th
century and demolished in 1984) http://www.flickr.com/photos/20792787@N00/5400834110/
Anghelesti-Carpinis wood church, Romania, built in the 17th century ?
Portable iconostasis and details, Russia www.liveauctioneers.com/item/5090890
Detail, portable iconostasis, Russia
www.liveauctioneers.com/item/5090890
Wood
church,
Gramesti,
Romania,
built in
the 17th
century,
photo
Alexandru
Babos
Royal Doors, wood
church, Gramesti,
Romania, built in the 17th
century,
photo Alexandru Babos
Crasna monastery,
Gorj county,
Romania, built in the
17th century ?
http://www.flickr.com/
photos/40317630@N
07/3709059311/
Crasna monastery, Gorj county, Romania, built in the 17th century ? amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?regiune=muntenia-oltenia-...
Crasna monastery, Gorj county, Romania, built in the 17th century ? amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?regiune=muntenia-oltenia-...
 Crasna
monastery, Gorj
county, Romania,
built in the 17th
century ?
amfostacolo.ro/po
ze-
fotoimpresii.php?r
egiune=muntenia-
oltenia-...
Aninoasa monastery, Romania, Parvu Mutu and Dima, Mihai and Badea zographers, 17th century, remodeled in
1722-1730
amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?statiune=alte-locuri-roma...
Aninoasa monastery, Romania, Parvu Mutu and Dima, Mihai and Badea zographers, 17th century, remodeled in
1722-1730
amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?statiune=alte-locuri-roma...
 www.turismland.ro/manastirea-aninoasa-
arges/

Aninoasa monastery, Romania,

the chapel, 18th century?

http://enacuisine.blogspot.com/2008/12/
excursie-la-manastirea-aninoasa.html
Wood church, Zlodica, Romania, 17th century? www.spic-icc.ro/e107_plugins/autogallery/autogallery.php?show=...
Wood church of the Trasfiguration, Russia, Kizhy island, 1714
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22333463@N02/5030538975/
 Wood church of the
Trasfiguration, Russia, Kizhy
island, 1714
picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot
o/XIxPsrlk5go8awpFc7VlUQ
St Nicholas church, Latakia, Syria, 6th century? remodeled in the 17th and 18th centuries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phool4xc/152414544/
St Nicholas church, Latakia, Syria, 6th century? remodeled in the 17th and 18th centuries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phool4xc/152414544/
Valea
monastery,
Valea Manastirii,
Titesti, Romania,
16th – 19th
centuries
www.panoramio.
com/user/16095
80/tags/judetul%
20Arges
Wood church, Dretea, Romania, built in the 17th century, painted in the 18th century, photo Alexandru Babos
Holy Angels church, Romanii de Jos, Romania, 18th century iconostasis
amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?statiune=horezu-romania&s...
Detail, Holy Angels church, Romanii de Jos, Romania, 18th century iconostasis
amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?statiune=horezu-romania&s...
Angeloktisti church, Kiti, Cyprus, built in the 11th - 14th centuries?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanaplin/3570007887/
Panagia Eleousa church, Trimiklini, Cyprus,
1744 iconostasis, 15th – 19th centuries Icons
http://www.mlahanas.de/Cyprus/Geo/Trimiklini02.html
Surpatele monastery, Romania, 18th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/9568724@N02/2991796132/
Royal Doors,
Surpatele
monastery,
Romania,
18th century
http://www.flickr.c
om/photos/95687
24@N02/299179
7446/in/photostre
am/
Stavropoleos church,
Bucharest, Romania,
18th century
http://www.flickr.com/
photos/fusion_of_hor
izons/sets/72157600
369128736/with/421
0686793/
Stavropoleos church, Bucharest, Romania, 18th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/desquiliano/5196514310/
 Detail, Stavropoleos church, Bucharest, Romania, 18th century
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusion_of_horizons/sets/72157600369128736/with/4210686793/
 Detail, Stavropoleos church, Bucharest, Romania, 18th century
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusion_of_horizons/sets/72157600369128736/with/4210686
793/
Feasts tier, Stavropoleos church, Bucharest, Romania, 18th century www.stavropoleos.ro/webpage.php?id=7
Detail, Stavropoleos church, Bucharest, Romania, 18th century http://www.flickr.com/photos/desquiliano/5195912651/in/photostream/
Govora
monastery,
rebuilt in the 18th
century, Romania
http://www.monu
menteromania.ro/
index.php/monu
mente/detalii/ro/B
iserica%20Adorm
irea%20Maicii%2
0Domnului/19282
/19281
Gheorgheie and
Ionu zographers,
Polovragi
monastery,
“Bolnita” church,
Romania, stone
iconostasis, 1738
http://www.flickr.c
om/photos/hornoi
uc/1210043541/
Gheorgheie and Ionu zographers, Polovragi monastery, “Bolnita” church, Romania, stone iconostasis, 1738 http://www.flickr.com/photos/hornoiuc/1210904902/
Gheorgheie and Ionu zographers, Polovragi monastery, “Bolnita” church, Romania, stone iconostasis, detail, 1738
Gheorgheie and Ionu zographers, Polovragi monastery, “Bolnita” church, Romania, stone iconostasis, detail, 1738
Gheorgheie and Ionu zographers, Polovragi monastery, “Bolnita” church, Romania, stone iconostasis, detail, 1738 http://www.flickr.com/photos/danuti/2865044074/
 amfostacolo.ro/poze-
fotoimpresii.php?statiu
ne=alte-locuri-roma...

Gheorgheie and Ionu zographers, Polovragi monastery, “Bolnita” church, Romania,

stone iconostasis, detail, 1738
Gheorgheie and Ionu zographers, Polovragi monastery, “Bolnita” church, Romania, stone iconostasis, detail, 1738, photo Tetcu Mircea Rares
St John the
Baptist church
(Bradu
hermitage),
Gurguiata,
Romania, 18th
century
http://smerenia.b
logspot.com/200
9/06/la-schitul-
bradu-bucuria-
pustniciei.html
Detail, St John
the Baptist
church (Bradu
hermitage),
Gurguiata,
Romania, 18th
century
http://arhitectura-
restaurare.blogsp
ot.com/search?u
pdated-
min=2008-01-
01T00%3A00%3
A00%2B02%3A0
0&updated-
max=2009-01-
01T00%3A00%3
A00%2B02%3A0
0&max-
results=26
Detail,
St John the
Baptist
church
(Bradu
hermitage),
Gurguiata,
Romania,
18th century
http://www.m
onumentero
mania.ro/ind
ex.php/monu
mente/detalii
/ro/Biserica
%20Sf.%20I
oan%20Bote
zatorul%20/1
9125
Detail,
St John the
Baptist
church
(Bradu
hermitage),
Gurguiata,
Romania,18th
century
http://www.m
onumenterom
ania.ro/index.
php/monume
nte/detalii/ro/
Biserica%20S
f.%20Ioan%2
0Botezatorul
%20/19125
Sitaru
(Balamuci)
monastery,
Romania, 18th
century
http://www.flickr.
com/photos/nori
da/sets/7215761
5972347377/wit
h/3393916601/
Detail, Sitaru (Balamuci) monastery, Romania, 18th century
Royal Doors, Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel wood church, Panet, Romania, Comeniu zographer, 1740
Royal Doors,
wood church,
Pojogeni din
Vai village,
Gorj,
Romania,
18th century
Royal Doors,
wood church,
Manailesti-Mosteni,
Romania,
18th century
Royal Doors,
St Nicholas
wood church,
Valea Mare,
Romania,
18th century
Wood church, Poiana Sibiului, Romania, 18th century, photo Tetcu Mircea Rares
Detail, wood church, Poiana Sibiului, Romania, 18th century, photo Tetcu Mircea Rares
Wood church, Calinesti, Romania, iconostasis
painted by Alexandru Ponehalschi zographer
in 1764
Detail, wood church, Calinesti, Romania, iconostasis painted by Alexandru Ponehalschi zographer
in 1764 amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?regiune=maramures-romania...
Dormition church, Causeni,
Bessarabia, painted in 1763 by
Stanciul Radu and Voicul
zographers
Royal Doors, Greece, 1771
http://www.templegallery.
com/main.php?mode=3&p1
=1540
Wood church, National village museum Dimitrie Gusti, Bucharest, Romania, Mihail zographer and deacon, 1773
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vladimir-911/1716053343/
Wood church,
National village
museum Dimitrie
Gusti, Bucharest,
Romania, Mihail
zographer and
deacon, 1773
http://www.flickr.c
om/search/?w=all
&q=wood+church
+romania&m=text
#page=29
Wood church, Budesti Josani, Romania, 17th -18th centuries amfostacolo.ro/poze-fotoimpresii.php?hotel=descopera-maramures...
 Birth of the Mother of God church, Budurleni, 18th century
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bortescristian/sets/72157625100153297/with/5108301226/
Wood church, Budesti Susani, Romania, Alexandru Ponehalschi zographer, 1760
Wood church, Desesti, Romania, Alexandru Ponehalschi zographer, 18th century
Birth of the Mother of God wood church, Ieud Ses, Romania, built in the 18th century,
Alexandru Ponehalschi zographer?, photo Tetcu Mircea Rares
Mierlesti church, Romania, 18th century iconostasis, photo Tetcu Mircea Rares
Geoagiu de Sus
church, Romania,
built in the 16th
century,
transformed in the
18th century
http://www.monume
nteromania.ro/index
.php/monumente/d
etalii/ro/Biserica%2
0Intrarea%20in%20
Biserica%20/2824
 Geoagiu de Sus church, Romania, built in the 16th century, transformed in the 18th century
http://www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Biserica%20Intrarea%20in%20B
iserica%20/2824
Sfintii Voievozi (Holy
Archangels) church,
Pitesti, Romania,
18th century
http://www.monume
nteromania.ro/index.
php/monumente/det
alii/ro/Biserica%20Sf
.%20Voievozi%20a
%20fostului%20schit
%20/3117
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandahattan/363796478/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dslewis/5261541899/

The Hanging (Suspended) church,

Cairo, Egypt
Wood church, Craiova (from Talpasesti village), Romania, 1780, photo Alexandru Babos
Detail, wood church,
Craiova (from
Talpasesti village),
Romania, 1780,
photo Alexandru
Babos
Detail, wood
church, Craiova
(from Talpasesti
village), Romania,
1780,
photo Alexandru
Babos
Royal Doors, Valea
Scheiului wood church,
Romania, 18th century,
photo Tetcu Mircea
Rares
Cozia monastery, Romania, 1794 iconostasis
www.arhiram.ro/manastiri/manastirea-cozia
 St Mamas church, Cyprus, back of iconostasis,
photo Galen Frysinger,

St Mamas church, Cyprus

http://www.flickr.com/photos
/63532254@N00/29454545
02/
St Barnabas
monastery,
Cyprus
http://www.flickr.c
om/photos/mikey
oung/543671490
8/in/set-
72157625456149
302
 St Barnabas monastery, Cyprus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30978737@N07/2918165853/
Holy Mother of God (Dormition)
church, Lesok monastery, built in
the 14th century, renovated in the
19th century, Macedonia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/363381
86@N05/4857210015/in/set-
72157618590463442
Holy Mother of God (Dormition) church, Lesok monastery, built in the 14th century, renovated in the 19th century, Macedonia, photo
Paul Williams
Benaki museum, Athens, Greece http://www.flickr.com/photos/fieri/3588620751/
19th century iconostasis, Benaki museum, Athens, Greece
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taconi/4190053945/
Detail, 19th century iconostasis, Benaki museum, Athens, Greece http://www.flickr.com/photos/clairity/3443946983/
Detail, 19th century
iconostasis, Benaki
museum, Athens,
Greece
http://www.flickr.co
m/photos/20945717
@N05/sets/721576
22263005859/with/
3926194568/
 Royal Doors, Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel church, Ceisoara, Romania, built in 1734, repaired in 1834
http://www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Biserica%20de%20lemn%20Sf.%20Arhangheli
%20Mihail%20si%20Gavriil%20/4669