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Onufri Museum
Icons in Onufri red
Icons by Berat’s 16th-century master painter, inside a church within the castle walls.
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Image courtesy of © Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Image courtesy of © Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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About Onufri Museum
Inside Berat’s castle, the Church of the Dormition of St Mary houses the National Iconographic Museum Onufri. It is named after Onufri, the 16th-century archpriest and painter, trained in Venice, who founded a school of icon painting in Berat and brought a touch of the Italian Renaissance to the Orthodox tradition. His celebrated red, known as Onufri red, still glows in the icons, and the church keeps a gilded, finely carved iconostasis. Opening days change with the season, so check before you go, and allow an hour.
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- Onufri’s red
- Gilded iconostasis
- Within the castle
- Address
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Opening hours, prices and seasonal openings change, so please check with Onufri Museum before you go.
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