This impressive object reproduces a church iconostasis. It is an architectural construction in a single plan, composed of 34 icons (of which three are missing) arranged on five levels, delimited by friezez and crowned with the Crucifixion Cross. The friezes are decorated with vegetal and golden floral motifs, the columns have the cylindrical axis also decorated with vegetal motifs, and the capitals, with composite motifs. The painting respects, broadly, the traditional canons, but, under the influence of Western painting, new elements are being introduced in iconography. It is possible that this is the iconostasis given by the royal family, mentioned in the church’s inventory in 1902.
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