In 2019, 80 years have elapsed since Nicodim Munteanu’s election as the Patriarch; he was the worthy shepherd, a wise and diplomatic scholar of the Orthodox Church in the troubled times of the Second World War and in the first years of communism in Romania and Europe Eastern. The study titled "Trans disciplinary Approach of the Translation of the Book of Books: The Illustrated Bible. Selected Places accompanied by art and scientific illustrations, by Nicodim, Metropolitan of Moldova and Professor I.D. Ştefănescu” highlights the novelty of translation and the iconographic comparisons that integrate the Romanian medieval art in the tradition and the circuit of Byzantine art, civilization and culture. The idea of printing a visual gospel in Romanian language was not new, and the frescoes and church architecture in Bucovina, the expression of a European refinement influenced by the Benedictines, and the famous Renaissance School of Venice, with which Stephan the Great had many cultural, religious or political connections was an important source of inspiration for this work. Professor I.D. Ştefănescu was the nephew of the writer Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea, married to Margareta Vlahuţă, the daughter of the writer Alexandru Vlahuţă.
Good friend of Patriarch Nicodim and supporter of relations with the Vatican in the period after the signing of the Concordat with the Vatican of the Kingdom of Romania (10 May 1927), Professor I.D. Ştefănescu was a refined connoisseur of the peculiarities of the Romanian medieval culture, a pioneer of the understanding of the Romanian Byzantine art in the West, acquainted with the ecclesial architectural monuments of Transylvania and Bucovina.
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