Constantin Pappia And His Library
The history of a country's libraries is made not only of facts and events related to large (or smaller) institutions, but also of phenomena that illustrate the taste for books and bibliophily of particular individuals, especially when such libraries come to be included
The Icon On Wood - Sacred Collection Object
Painter and collector of icons, Sergiu Savin was born in Bucovina, at Horodnic. Although he is a native of Bucovina he left his village when he was a child, and went to Transylvania. He came in touch with his native land very late, when he was about 55. He wanted one day
A Fragile Collection - The Memory Of Glass Plates
The Romanian Peasant's Museum Motto: A photo is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. At the beginning of the 20th century, Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaş1 was wandering around the villages of Oltenia and Bucovina, looking for folk art objects.
The Art Collector Ion Minulescu
Shortly after World War I a new name amidst art collectors in the know started to compel recognition: that of poet Ion Minulescu. At that time, more intensely than in previous years, he would, due among others to his obligations as Director General of the Arts, visit exhibitions,
How I Became A Collector
The feelings for beauty and for art in general are multiple and diverse; they follow an ascending path, turning into a passion for the sensitive person, who loves it and who vibrates with emotion in front of any artistic manifestation situated on the realm of perfection.
Lansare de carte la Institutul Cultural Român
Marţi, 3 februarie 2009, de la ora 18. 00, la Institutul Cultural Român va avea loc lansarea volumului Strigăt şi fum – Trei eseuri despre Benjamin Fondane, de Nedeea Burcă, publicat la Editura Pelican. Lansarea va fi urmată de o dezbatere la care vor participa prof.
Bursele „Constantin Brâncuşi”: artiste din România la Cité Internationale des Arts
Bursele „Constantin Brâncuşi din 2009 au fost acordate de Institutul Cultural Român artistelor Irina Adina Botea şi Anca Benera, care vor lucra timp de trei luni la atelierul României de la Cité Internationale des Arts din Paris. Irina Botea, absolventă a Universităţii
Victor Eftimiu
Would you please not rank me among collectors, although I pretend I am a connaisseur, in the meaning of the French word, academician Victor Eftimiu told me on one occasion in 1965, seated on a bergère, clad in a night gown, rather worn down but adorned with fine embroidery,
Poor Ioanide
excerpts IV In his office on the ground floor, Saferian, on a chair and surrounded by four men, all standing, was contemplating an oil portrait, set near them against the back of an ordinary straw chair. It is an Ingres, most certainly, said one of the four, a man with trimmed
The Collector Onic Zambaccian
If his consuming passion for art gained Krikor Zambaccian a familiar fame amongst the collectors in Bucharest, particularly by dint of his acquisitions in the field or foreign art, few know that his younger brother, Onic (1891-1975), yet another aficionado of beauty, was
Kollectian
Just think that I paid it once, and it pays me off a lifetime instead. * Zambaccian on a canvas by Pallady Having great collectors represents as big a chance for a culture as having great artists. Flourishing arts are hardly imaginable when wealthy art-lovers are missing,
The Museum Of Art Collections
After having been closed for consolidation, restoration and reorganization, the Museum of Art Collections, housed by the former Romanit Palace, restores to circulation fourteen collections, exhibited in the building facing the Grivita Road. The building was closed in 1986