Biserica Stavropoleos în 1930
Stavropoleos Church in 1930
Stavropoleos is little old church, very elegant, a
monument of brincovenesque style, built in 1724 by
the Greek monk Ioanikie, Bishop of Stavropole. It is
a religious monument, but also an homage for the
phanariot Prince Nicolae Mavrocordat. Above the
imperial doors the onlooker discovers the princely
bicephalous eagle. The decor is a mélange of
anthropomorphe and zoomorphe elements. The
characteristic of the framings is the stone-sculpted
floral decoration, an element of the brancovenesque
style.
In the second half of XIXth century, the medieval
architectural ensembles from the central area of the
city were destroyed. Stavropoleos Church is a
survivor. Her existence in the urban structure,
between the Old Court (Curtea Veche) and the
Lipscani commercial street, is for everybody a
surprise.
The church was restored in 1904 by the leader of the
Romanian School of Architecture: Ion Mincu
(1852-1912.
There is a Stavropoleos series built by framing
variation and by metonymical relations of the part –
whole type that allow it to emphasize the
construction’s elements. The attention is directed
towards the stetting elements: caps, the medallions
painted from the outside.
