Artist

Ivan Zugravul

Ivan Zugravul is a Baroque artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at ASTRA National Museum Complex.

This priest-turned-painter spent his Sundays painting saints and his weekdays tending the village flock in Rășinari. In 1718 he climbed to Roșia Montană’s wooden church and covered its ceiling with a vast orange sky, then dotted it with stars so the miners below could look up and feel watched over. His trick was simple: paint Christ’s cloak the exact red of the local clay, so the light in the church felt like the light outside. Find his Pantocrator in Cărpiniș and you’ll see why the iconostasis still glows like a sunset trapped in wood.

Works by Ivan Zugravul

Collections represented

ASTRA National Museum Complex

Museum

ASTRA National Museum Complex

"ASTRA" National Museum Complex is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers under the same authority four ethnology and civilisation museums in the city, a series of laboratories for…

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