Analiza unei miniaturi a Sfantului Ierarh Antim Ivireanul
An Analyze of a Miniature Belonging to Saint Antym from Iviria

Summary/Abstract: The author presents a heraldic-religious composition on a document issued on 20th July, 1715 by Antim Ivireanul, the metropolitan archbishop of Wallachia, for the Antim Monastery he had founded in Bucharest. Central to the shield is a religious scene bordered by eight medallions all around it; seven of these medallions contain zoomorphic representations (an eagle, a sheep, a bee, a snail, a snake, a bat and a dove), while the eighth medallion shows the power symbols of a high ranking prelate: the cross, the crosier, the miter-crown and the hat. Three medallions, the ones on the right side of the heraldic composition depict an eagle under the letter A, a sheep under the letter T and a bee, under the letter M, that is the initials and the emblems of the counties of Argeş, Teleorman and Mehedinţi.

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