THE MYSTERIOUS OLD MAN (PAINTING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY)

THE MYSTERIOUS OLD MAN (PAINTING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY)

On the pylon of the southern wall of St. Cyril’s Church there is a wall tempera portrait of the 17th century, depicting the abbot of St. Cyril’s Monastery of the end of the 17th century. This plot is a valuable example of Ukrainian monumental portrait painting of the seventeenth century, a surprisingly realistic portrait of an Orthodox intellectual.

A Jew by birth, Orthodox by faith, professor of the Lviv Collegium, and later Archimandrite Derazhytsky and Kyiv-Cyril’s abbot, Innocenty Monastyrsky devoted his entire life to serving the Orthodox Church and deserves the good memory of his descendants.

 

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