Święty władca Wołoszczyzny – Neagoe Basarab (1512–1521). Analiza porównawcza postaci na podstawie obrazu z kolekcji klasztoru św. Katarzyny na Górze Synaj

Natalia Woszuk

doi:10.21697/an.16218

Published: 2025-12-29

No. 9 (2025)

Saint Wallachia’s ruler – Neagoe Basarab (1512–1521). A comparative analysis of the figures, based on a painting from the collection of St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai

Natalia Woszuk

Artifex Novus

Section: Artykuły tematyczne

https://doi.org/10.21697/an.16218

Abstract

The 16th-century hospodar Neagoe Basarab was one of the most frequently portrayed rulers of Wallachia. A monarch of uncertain origins, he ruled Wallachia for nine years and was remembered as a wise, pious, and generous ruler. During the rule of Neagoe Basarab, Wallachian influence reached monastic communities on Mount Athos, Jerusalem, and Mount Sinai. The article analyzes a painting (a fragment of a wooden box) with the image of Saint Neagoe Basaraba and his family. The work is kept in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. Iconographic analysis of the painting and comparison of the object with the preserved medieval fresco portraits of this ruler from what is now Romania will allow us to trace the iconographic type presenting the portrait of the Wallachian hospodar.

Neagoe Basarab was canonized in 2008 by the Romanian Orthodox Church, but the saint remains unknown outside what is now Romania, as are the works of wall painting depicting family and donation portraits in the spaces of medieval Orthodox churches in Wallachia.

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Neagoe, Basarab, Wallachia, medieval art, portrait

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Woszuk, N. (2025). Saint Wallachia’s ruler – Neagoe Basarab (1512–1521). A comparative analysis of the figures, based on a painting from the collection of St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai. Artifex Novus, (9), 18–31. https://doi.org/10.21697/an.16218

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