Bohorodchany Iconostasis -Byzantine baroque masterpiece- found shelter in Ivano-Frank

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Even in a genre known for its dazzling opulence, the Bohorodchany Iconostasis stands by itself.

Created between 1698 and 1705 by the monk and painter Yov Kondzelevych and at least 20 artisans, the iconostasis is a 13-metre-high, 11-metre-wide wall of gilded icons and other religious scenes, set in ornate wooden frames and crowned by a huge gold depiction of the Crucifixion.

The artist was born in Zhovkva, a centre of painting and wood carving located 19 miles north of Lviv, in 1667. At 19, he entered a nearby monastery. Not much is known about his life, but he is thought to have fallen under the tutelage of the great Baroque icon painter Ivan Rutkovych, who kept a studio in Zhovkva.

Rutkovych’s masterpiece, the Zhovkva Iconostasis, also hung in the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum until it was removed only earlier this year.

In 1698, Kondzelevych received a commission from the Manyava Orthodox Monastery, the dominant hermitage in what was then Polish Galicia, to create the Bohorodchany Iconostasis.

Kondzelevych assembled carpenters, joiners, goldsmiths and other artisans, and established a workshop in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. He remained there with his team for seven years.

This past March, Kozhan supervised the dismantling of the iconostasis for the seventh time in its history. Twelve museum workers toiled for four days, removing the ingenious wooden joints that had locked the icons to their frames, then carefully separating the giant panels into dozens of parts.

Kozhan held up several of the crude-but-effective locking mechanisms. “Every piece was linked,” he told me.

Kozhan agreed to let me visit the secret storage place of the iconostasis on the condition that I revealed no details that could give it away. The next day, an aide in Lviv led me to a basement. There, I set eyes on hundreds of icons and other treasures.

Parts of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis were stacked together without wrapping. Kozhan was confident that they’d be well protected, though he’d reached out to colleagues in Poland to make contingency plans.

Source - https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/culture/art-theatre/ukraines-sacred-art-the-struggle-to-save-a-national-icon?fbclid=IwAR2C5MlGdIujkoGcqK3J2JIpK6M0dZ5OIlKTZDDkv_LSZeGZS4JDBTHuDGI 

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”Bohorodchany Iconostasis -Byzantine baroque masterpiece- found shelter in Ivano-Frank”

None of these words are in the bible 

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I thought Bohorodchany Iconostasis was the name of a drag queen 

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What is this Azerbaijanic language? 

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When I first saw a title I thought this was about a disease 

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14 minutes ago, gabeoz said:

When I first saw a title I thought this was about a disease 

I was like Bronchitis?

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In retrospect I should have named it differently to make it obvious what is talking about, then again I think the Eastern European mystique is intriguing.

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On 2/2/2023 at 7:50 PM, StarstruckIllusion said:

”Bohorodchany Iconostasis -Byzantine baroque masterpiece- found shelter in Ivano-Frank”

On 2/2/2023 at 8:24 PM, TheFriend said:

What is this Azerbaijanic language? 

On 2/2/2023 at 10:04 PM, gabeoz said:

When I first saw a title I thought this was about a disease 

Translation

Bohorodchany - a town in south-western Ukraine; Ivano-Frankivsk - an oblast in south-western Ukraine

Iconostasis - a wall of icons which separates the altar from the rest of the church. This is not something found in Catholic or Protestant churches and is unique to the churches of Eastern Europe.

How churches are in the west:

vs

How churches are in the east (iconostasis is in between the two parts of the church):

Byzantine - the religious art associated with Eastern Europe derived from ''Byzantium''/ the Byzantine Empire which was the eastern half of the Roman Empire

baroque - a Western style of paiting from the 16th–18th centuries

Basically the article is talking about an important piece of religious art from Ukraine which was moved from the Lviv Museum because of the war. In Western terms the article reads like ''The Last Supper - Renaissance masterpiece - found shelter in Corsica''