Anastasie Crimca
Illustration — Anastasie Crimca - Selfportrait in Liturghierul Book from 1610 Anastasius (Anastasie, secular name Ilie Crimca, anasˈtasi.e ˈkrimka; c. 1550–1629) was a Moldavian Eastern Orthodox clergyman, as well as a calligrapher, illuminator, and writer. Anastasie Crimca was born in Suceava, he was the Metropolitan of Moldavia (1608–1617; 1619–1629) and the founder of Dragomirna Monastery (1609), where he initiated a scriptorium remarkable for the stylistic unity of the work produced over two decades.
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Anastasie Crimca
Anastasie Crimca · Liturghier 1610 · Public domain
- Died
- 1629 · Suceava.
- Nationality
- Principality of Moldavia
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- painter · metropolitan · eastern orthodox priest · scholar · illustrator
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Illustration — Anastasie Crimca - Selfportrait in Liturghierul Book from 1610 Anastasius (Anastasie, secular name Ilie Crimca, anasˈtasi.e ˈkrimka; c. 1550–1629) was a Moldavian Eastern Orthodox clergyman, as well as a calligrapher, illuminator, and writer. Anastasie Crimca was born in Suceava, he was the Metropolitan of Moldavia (1608–1617; 1619–1629) and the founder of Dragomirna Monastery (1609), where he initiated a scriptorium remarkable for the stylistic unity of the work produced over two decades.
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The great similarity of the works has caused them to be attributed to Crimca, although some scholars have disputed this. The accepted opinion is that nine codices can be attributed to him: five of these are at Dragomirna Monastery, three are in Bucharest, and the Acts of the Apostles (1610) is in Vienna. One tetra gospel is in National Library in Warsaw. He died in Suceava and he is buried in exonarthex of Dragomirna church.
Anastasie Crimca, Ewangelia tetr
Monk Theophilos of Voroneţ Monastery (text, 1614) Stefan of Suceava (illuminations, 1617) · Andrzej Kłossowski (1990). Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie: zbiory i działalność. Biblioteka Narodowa. ISBN 83-70090-44-3
David Battling Saul, from a Moldavian manuscript of the Four Gospels kept at Dragomirna, Romania; done by a pupil of Anastasie Crimca, it reflects to some degree warfare in Moldavia at the turn of the 16th century. See Dan Horia Mazilu, "Voievodul dincolo de sala tronului", in Magazin Istoric, May 2002, p. 60
School of Anastasie Crimca · Kosson.ro, originally published in G. Popescu Vîlcea, Anastasie Crimca, 1972.
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1560
Anastasie Crimca born at Suceava.
1629
Anastasie Crimca died at Suceava.
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Anastasie Crimca is recorded as painter, metropolitan, eastern orthodox priest, scholar and illustrator. A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
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