The Palace of the Patriarchate will host a conference on Byzantine tradition and contemporary church paintingtranslated

The Palace of the Patriarchate will host the National Conference "Dogmatic unity and national specificity in church painting" in November. The program will bring together specialists in iconography, church painting, architecture and restoration.

The event, now in its 13th edition, will be organized between November 12-13 by the Church Painting Commission of the Romanian Patriarchate. This year's theme is "Church Art: Byzantine Heritage and Contemporary Expression".

Iconography and art history The program of the first day will be opened with a Laudatio-type speech and will continue with the section dedicated to iconography and art history, held under the banner "Iconography and style: the Byzantine tradition and its exploitation in history".

The speech will be given by the lecturer Luigi Bambulea from the National University of Arts in Bucharest and will be dedicated to the Prolog Group.

In the first section, themes related to the Orthodox-Byzantine iconographic guide, the painting from Ohrid, the icons of Alexandru Ponehalschi, the iconography of the proscomidiary and the representation of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Elena in contemporary painting will be presented.

Restoration of religious heritage The last…