THE BESSARABIAN ICON OF THE XLX-TH CENTURY

THE BESSARABIAN ICON OF THE XLX-TH CENTURY represents one of the most interesting artistic phenomen of the Christian Orthodox milieu, with its distinct features, which have been developed in a specific iconographical environment in the previous centuries. Being constituted in a late phase of the Middle Ages when the icon is in a general decline in other regions, the creations of Bessarabia, as a component part of the patrimony of medieval Moldova, underwent an unexpected leap in their evolution. But this apogee had been reached because of a quite a number of processes in this cultural domain. The museum collections of icons, which have been constituted in Moldova after the 70s and have been gathered in closed or destroyed monasteries and churches, represent a non-homogenous and insufficient studied material, which reflects in an unequal way (he development of the Bessarabian icon in the XVI-XIX centuries). Talking into account these considerations, the icon evolution of this period was studied more profound, which along with the continuation of the traditions of the previous centuries, reflects as well the new interference and the new influences, approaching them to the art of academic painters