“The Newest Olympia”, painted in 1930 by Corneliu Michăilescu, is a tribute-painting to Édouard Manet's “Olympia”. Moreover, it is a result, one might say, of the period when the Romanian artist collaborated with the renowned neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu. Michăilescu experimented
”The Bronze Age” sculpture, which entered the Royal Family Collection early last century, is based on a controversial original. Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) made several bronze versions, after struggling to sell the original in France. The work was exhibited
Ioan Andreescu, of whom Nicolae Grigorescu said that ‘he is the greatest artist the country has ever had’, also considering himself, was influenced by him. In 1873, having set out on the road with the modest idea of supporting himself
‘Finis Africae’, by Alexandru Crișan, the starting point of the exhibition ‘Roots’, a visual ode dedicated to the immovable material heritage, a meditation on the unchanged world that served as a source of inspiration for Constantin Brâncuși, can be seen
"Forgotten Romanian Painters", part of the Art Safari season which starts on March 7, brings together more than one hundred paintings signed by dozens of artists who have made a significant contribution to the history of Romanian art, but whose
The only clearly authenticated Rembrandt van Rijn painting in the National Art Museum of Romania (MNAR) is "Haman before Esther". It is on permanent display in the European Art Gallery, in the room bearing the painter's name, where are on
Leading Romanian galleries and exhibitors from Belgium, Germany, Austria, Poland and Moldova are taking part in this year's RAD Art Fair, which takes place from May 22-25 at Caro Hotel in Bucharest, where a sculpture park will once again be
Peter Paul Rubens' El jardin del amor, painted between 1630 and 1635, after he married his second and last wife, Helena Fourment, is in the Central Gallery of the Museo del Prado. It is one of Rubens's greatest transpositions as a
Brukenthal National Museum organizes in 2025 exhibitions and special events at its premises, including incursions into the graphic universe of Marcel Chirnoagă, Ion Țuculescu, but also solo shows Roman Tolici and Sibylle Bergemann, Romania's History in 100 Portraits and the
"Enjoy the photographers, use them, take photos, take group photos!", was the artist Ion Grigorescu's exhortation at the opening of the exhibition "At crime scene" at Galeria Romană. Ovidiu Ungureanu, the artist who imagined a creative process with photo-video means, led