Save Maxo Vanka Murals – on the walls of the first Croatian church in Pittsburgh area St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Millvale PA.
I signed on to attend a tour with four friends at ten in the morning. Our tour time got changed to 12:30 as the church had a funeral at the ten o’clock time. Our tour guide Susan was knowledgeable and it was a wonderful experience to learn about how Maxo Vanka built his own scaffolding and painted the walls and ceiling of the church. He finished the paintings one week before Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The murals include secular and religious symbolism Painted by Croatian immigrant artist
Maximilian Vanka (Maxo Vanko) across two intense phases in 1937 and 1941.
You can see the scaffolding where conservators preserve and clean the murals.
Find the area that was left untouched by the conservator
Gospel writer Matthew
You can see the restored and unrestored sections of the hands.
