National Museum of Art

St. Prokopios isn’t well known in western Christianity, by which I mean I’ve had to look on Wikipedia to find

I posted about the doors from this church, this is the Iconostasis cross from the same building. Rather faded now

As further evidence that I need to get out more, I find these kind of exhibits rather meaningful. The thought

The colours on the icons remain bright and vibrant and if it has been restored, there’s no evidence of that.

This iconostatsis hid what was happening in the altar from the congregation, adding some mystery to the proceedings. The bottom

Ooooh, I love an old book, think of the history of where this book has been and how it has

This is a sixteenth century wall fresco depicting the Journey to Emmaus. It’s been taken from a church in Cincis,

There’s perhaps nothing exceptional about this sixteenth century polychrome wooden crucifix, but it’s well presented and that’s added some mystery

Well, these are lovely, they’re fresco fragments taken from Curtea de Arges cathedral when it was reconstructed in 1883. Quite