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See also: Viforata Targoviste Sinaia On the territory of the Viforâta village belong The Deau Monastery, one of the most interesting religious monumentes in the county. The monastery existed at 17 november 1431, when Alexandru Vodă Aldea give to it two villages, Alexeni and Răzvad, for the remembrance of Mircea the Old, the father of the intending builder. |
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In the XVI century after its rebuilding, the Dealu monastery was an important regency necropolis, completing this role beginning with 1508, the date Radu the Great was buried here, the church builder. After this date were buried here : the Caplea landlady, the sister of Radu the Great (1511), Vlăduț waivode, the brother of Radu the Great (1512), Radu vodă Bădica, the son of Radu the Great(1524), Vlad "The Sunken" (1532), Pătrașcu vodă the Good, the nephew of the first builder (1567) and Mihai Movilă (1608).
After the regency of Mihai the Brave Dealu monastery suffered because of the armies of the prince Gabriel Báthory, that entered unexpected in the country, in december 1610. How tell the ex-mitrpolit Matei of mirelor(title), the hegumen of the moastery at that time, the soldiers stoled "all the jewels" of the church, "breacking the regnants graves... and spoiling the church ledgers", hoping to find treasures here ; with the same opportunity was taken also the lead that covered the church. At 1614 Radu vodă Mihnea (1611 - 1616) visited the monastery and found the local "decayed and crecked and depleted and lootered and caving with all by the hungarians". Hereby the waivode gave the monastery the Satul Nou, tax-free, from which revenue (100 coins each year) the monks should "reinforce and refit the holy monastery". The great builder that was Constantin Brîncoveanu didn't unvalued the Dealu monastery, he made to the church a new paint "all over", as well as a new carpentry ; the document preserve also the name of the painters : Constantin, Preda, Nicolae and Radu, almost the same team that painted the mitropoly from Târgoviște at 1707 - 1709. After the regency of Constantin Brîncoveanu, in the fanarioților(title) era, like many others monastery in the country, the Dealu monastery, uncared by the monks begun to collapse.
At the beginning of the XIX century the minster of Dealu show it self to Nicolae Iorga like a "wonder of the oriental art". "Great flagstones, bounded with iron gibs, compose the walls with an unusual power in bulk and in their rock clamping-in. Two orthogonal towers in front, a big one in the middle. The most delicate and diverse stone laces surroundes the hall split at right and left from the entrance or they wrought the base, ending the towers windowes. The most exquisite taste should have stop before this charmed harmony, made for a thousand years". The earthquake from 1940 caused great damages to the monastery, demolishing the steeples of the church, the superior part of the bell tower and damaging the buildings from 1912, that were rebuild in 1953 - 1956, o period when the monastery recovered its original brilliance. The Dealu monastery link its name to the appereance of the first
book in Romania and the establishment of the fourth european typographical center of
cyrillic writing, trought the patronage of the waivode Radu the Great and the activity
of the bookman monk Macarie. The books that appeared at Dealu in 1508, 1510, 1512, 1644,
1645, 1646 and 1647 constitute not only unique formes of an autochthon editorial model,
but also the the perfect illustration of an cultural and ideological specific current,
trought which the waivodal Târgoviște assume the role of an important south-east european
cultural centre, the place of apparition of the necessary books for the romanians and the
christians in The Otoman Empire, point of the maximum concentration of national and
european of scholary values, called to work for the developement of the culture
and literary language. Especially in the XVII century - trought Matei of Mirelor and Udriște
Năsturel - The Dealu Monastery became easement for the activity of miniaturists, translatores
and pressmen that bring out Toma Kempis editiones, the mitropolit Varlaam of Moldova drawes
beautifully portraites (like those of Matei Basarab and Lady Elina, drawn by Antim the calligraphist
in 1634 - 1644).
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