The Kyiv Metropolitanate in the times of Piotr Mohyla became one of the most dynamic intellectual centers for European Orthodoxy with the Kyivan Caves Lavra and the Collegium, a higher school founded by the Metropolitan, leaders of the spiritual life in Ukraine exerting influence on neighbouring countries, especially on Moldova. The Elements of "Ukrainian Mannerism and Baroque" visible here resulted from mutual contacts, e.g. books from the printing house displaying copies of illustrations from the Kyivan editions. It is also necessary to mention the role of Lviv in transmitting ideas to the Balkans. At the end of the 17th century, there were painting workshops in Kyiv and Chernihiv, from which travellers took icons with them. In the next century, Romanian monasteries ordered icons from Ukraine. Similarly, in Bulgaria, many icons can be found whose iconography refers to Ukrainian models. This presentation will focus on examples from early modern Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece to demonstrate mutual influences with the Ukrainian iconographic tradition.

Waldemar Deluga is art historian and professor at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic and editor of Series Byzantina. He is an expert in Eastern Christian art and graphics of the 15th to 19th centuries. He served as the curator of graphic art at the National Museum in Warsaw (1987–2000) and as a lecturer at the University of Gdańsk (1997-2001) and at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (2001–2017). He curated e.g. the exhibition Ars Armeniaca: Armenian Art from the Polish and Ukrainian Collections at the Museum of Zamość in 2010. He has a rich publication list about Eastern Christian art in Central Europe and organized several international conferences, including Art of the Armenian Diaspora (Zamość 2010; Gdańsk 2016; Warsaw 2017; Ostrava 2022) and Art of the Greek Diaspora (Zamość 2024). In 2023, he organized an exhibition at the Archdiocesan Museum in Warsaw titled Sacred Icons from Kyiv and Chernihiv. He authored the monograph
Ukrainian Painting between Byzantine and Latin Traditions (Ostrava-Warsaw, 2019).