Biserica "Sf. Voievozi", Cîinenii Mici, comuna Cîineni, județul Vâlcea (1981)

1981

The photograph is part of the Research Report No. 663 “Study on the architecture of cult monuments.” The excavations were conducted in 1981 in Loviste Land. In the image of the church dedicated to “Sf. Voivodes” from the village of Cîinenii Mici, Camineni commune. The church was built 1807 and painted in 1808. Between the painters Manole and Micu, later repainted in porch. Pisania - slab carved in the porch, over the door (in Cyrillic letters): “This holy and godlike church has walled in the dedication of the holy voivods and of the great martyr Dimitrie and Cuvioasa Paraschiva, founder at all expense of Jupan Frangu, Maria, Nicolae, Toma, Pătru, Constandin (...), that in the centuries we should mention (...) 187.” Painted inscription underneath: “And the top face outside was predicted by Nicolae Daneș, Constantin Daneș painted the gate.” Painted inscription in proscomidia: “zugravi Manole, Micu (?), Radu ereu, (...)” ereița (...) "- the rest illegible. Exterior inscription, under the cornice, near the porch “188.” Inscriptions narthex, west wall, to the donor portraits: jupâneasa Maria, Constandin, Nicolae, jupan Frangu Daneș, jupan Dumitraşcu Cosmescu, jupâneasa Floarea, Stefan Ganea (?) ereu, Smaranda ereița, Pantazi Constandin postelnicu, Bishop Joseph. Building materials: river stone foundation, brick masonry, brick vaults, wooden snake and sheet metal covers. Architecture Plan: rectangular nave with decayed polygonal apse, open porch on the columns; the altar is of semicircular route inside and polygonal outside: the iconostasis is walled, as is the wall between the nave and narthex (pierced by three openings); the bell tower is situated over the narthex, with an access staircase attached to the north wall. Elevation - massive brick masonry, with few openings; the windows are rectangular, narrow, with the glaze flared inwards; the narthex has two windows, the nave three, the altar one (in the axis of the apse); the porch is opened by arches in full five, supported by 6 columns with the bases on the wall parapet; vaulting 1. The apse is covered with a quarter of a calot, which is delimited by the nave by a triumphal arch. 2. The nave is covered with a meadow, central, supported on four pendants; 3. the narthex has (central) the high, polygonal peat, with narrow windows on each side (profiled with retreating freaks), covered with a calotta with drainage through the pendants; the north and south sections of the narthex are vaulted with 2 longitudinal, lateral arches; 4. vaulted porch with a central cauldron and transverse side half-cylinders; 5. sheet coverings are in 2 longitudinal and semicircular waters over the apse conca; 6. The peat has a roof compartmentalized into onion bulb. Architectural decoration: the socket is marked by a masonry weir; a horizontal girdle, in the upper third of the walls, separates two registers of narrow panels, made of semicircular upper arched sherds; the cornice strongly profiled, made of concave and convex torches retreating; the windows have wooden encadrament, decorated superior with bifore arches. Painting - Iconography The ensemble is very smoked; altar - conca: The old one of Days, the Mother of God with the infant framed by two archangels, angelic liturgy; walls: glory of hierarchical saints; nave: iconostasis (damaged) - Molenii, Apostoli, Praznice; calotte - Jesus Pantocrator, The Sobor of angels, The circles of fire; pendants: The four evangelists; timpane: south - The change to face, “1. calotta: The Mother of God Platytera,” 2. Transverse arcs: busts of prophets; 3. walls: portrait gallery of the founders (west and south); porch "1. calotta: Jesus Emanuel; 2.arce - two parables from the crystal cycle; 3. walls - upper register - 6 scenes from the Old Testament (Creating the World); - lower register - east: Jesus Cristos Judge, Throne of Hetimasia, 2 repainted panels of the secco (Deisis and Mother of God with the infant framed by two archangels). The votive portraits are of great documentary importance, because of the clothing (over the long shirts, studded with wide girdles, the men have extensive, trimmed coffees, with wide sleeves; the postelnic Pantazi has shallots, the women have a brown head). The exterior painting: the upper register - in the arches, figurations of prophets, philosophers and sibile; the lower register - south wall - Sf. Gheorghe (?), Sf. Constantin and Elena, archangels, saints theologians; the rest of the arches - decorative compositions from plant arabesques, with central circular medallions. Stylistically, the graphism prevails, the compositions are rigid and synthetic, the volumetric flattened; being very smoked, the painted ensemble is hardly definable compared to other contemporary frescoes. The painted ensemble (interior and exterior) is due to a rural workshop from the early nineteenth century, characterized by the accuracy of the drawing, the observance of the ermines and models notebooks, the simplicity of the compositions, the illustrativism and the abundance of the decor (typical horror holiday), specific to the mentioned period and ambience.