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Splendours of Our Homeland
The Church of St. George at Kostoľany pod Tríbečom
Catalogue Number:  44
Stamp Design:  Igor Benca
Stamp Engraving:  František Horniak
Date of Issue:  November 8, 1994
Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:  Rotary-recess printing combined with recess printing
Print Run:  3,423,000
FDC Design:  Igor Benca
FDC Engraving:  František Horniak
Cancellation Design:  Igor Benca
Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:  Recess printing from flat plates
FDC Print Run:  10,000

The Church of St. George (sv. Juraj) at Kostoľany pod Tríbečom (in the district of Nitra)

The church - a pre-romanesque structure from the first half of the 11th century - is a national heritage monument. It was built on the remains of a fortress in a settlement of which part belonged to the Zobor monastery. The oldest part of the church, with the square presbytery and rectangular nave (depicted on the stamp), is an exemple of one of the basic types of ecclesiastical architecture used in Slovakia folowing the introduction of Christianity. The painting, from the latter half of the 11th century, is the oldest preserved fresco of significant size in Slovakia. Its various biblical scenes - the Annunciation, Visitation, the three kings following the star and the Adoration of the Magi - reveal in their archaic character and linear stylisation the inspiration of the western pre-romanesque model.


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