Reconstruction of the Berbești household in the Village Museum. Shura, Bucharest, 1961

Boris Zderciuc · 1961

In the image of the reconstruction of the Berbești, Maramures County, in the Village Museum, in 1961. The settlement of the dungeon on the roof snake (south side) takes place. Secondly, the silhouette of the wooden church from DragomiÎn, Maramures county, built in 1722, is observed (date excavated on the wall to the left of the door). She was transferred to the Village Museum in 1936, being donated by the united Romanian Episcopate from Maramures. Coming from a region where the art of wooden constructions experienced great development, the church was rebuilt on the site of an earlier one burned in 1717, as a result of the incursion of robbery of the Tatars. The church is erected on a low foundation made of malaise, with walls made of spruce beams, ended in a row and has a very high roof made of double lap shingles and very steep slopes, flared at the bottom. The tower raised above the narthex is provided with a small gallery and a pyramidal helmet over 18 m high. Benefiting from the same construction techniques, also present at the buildings in the peasant household and in accordance with the specificity of the Maramures ecclesial architecture, it fits typologically to the hall churches, with a rectangular plan, elongated to the east, consisting of the altar, nave for men (“the men’s church”) and narthex for women (“the women’s church”), plus a small entrance porch, which has the role of protecting the construction The polygonal altar, with its own roof, houses a table covered with a carpet and cult objects and presents an iconostasis from the old church whose iconography is the one prescribed by the canons, the aidoma of the nave, unlike the one from the narthex, where the painting echoes the imagination of the peasant painter concerning the Last Judgment. From an artistic point of view, the decorative elements of the porch with carved pillars are noted and united by elegant arches at the top and a treaded railing, at the bottom.