The Voroneţ Monastery is arguably the best known of the Southern Bucovina monasteries. It was built in just three months and three weeks by Ştefan cel Mare following a key 1488 victory over the Turks, It's known both for the quality of the exterior paintings and for its signature 'Voroneţ Blue' colour. Today Voroneţ is a nunnery.
The most famous Voroneţ painting, The Last Judgment, covers the western exterior wall. Angels at the top roll up the zodiac signs, indicating the end of time, while humanity is brought to judgment in the middle. On the left, St Paul escorts the believers, while a stern Moses takes the nonbelievers on the right. The Heaven and Garden of Eden is on the bottom left, the Resurrection is on the bottom right.
On the northern wall is Genesis, from Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel. The southern wall features the Tree of Jesse (King David's father) with the biblical genealogy. The first three rows portray St Nicholas' life and miracles. The next two rows recount the martyrdom of Suceava's St John the New. The bottom row, from left to right, features the monastery's patron saint, St George, fighting the dragon, St Daniel the Hermit with Metropolitan Grigorie, a Deisis icon, and the 1402 procession of St John the New's relics into Suceava.
