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Collection Name: MS349 Otto Kroeger Photograph Collection. Click here to view the entire collection on The State Historical Society's website.
Photographer/Studio: unknown
Description: The Kroeger sisters dress up as men.
Coverage: United States – Illinois or Missouri
Date: 1900s-1910s
Rights: public domain
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives and The State Historical Society
Image Number: MS349_230.tif
Institution: Missouri State Archives
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Humor Monastery was constructed in 1530 by Voievod Petru Rareş. It was closed in 1786 and was not reopened until 1990.
Humor was one of the first of Moldavia's painted monasteries to be frescoed and, along with Voroneţ, is probably the best preserved. The subjects of the frescoes at Humor include the Siege of Constantinople and the Last Judgment, common on the exterior of the painted monasteries of Bucovina, but also the Hymn to the Virgin inspired by the poem of Patriarch Sergius of Constantinople relating to the miraculous intervention of the Theotokos in saving the city from Persian conquest in 626.