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The building is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and National Identity. [5] The museum was devastated during the June 1990 Mineriad, due to being confused with the headquarters of the National Peasants' Party. One of the museum's most famous exhibits—originally the work of Tzigara-Samurcaș—is "the house in the ...
The Village Museum or formally National Museum of the Village "Dimitrie Gusti" (Romanian: Muzeul Național al Satului "Dimitrie Gusti") is an open-air ethnographic museum located in the King Michael I Park, Bucharest, Romania. The museum showcases traditional Romanian village life. The museum extends to over 100,000 m 2, [1] and contains 123 ...
Iosif Berman was born in Burdujeni , near Suceava to a Jewish father who had been awarded Romanian citizenship for participating in the 1877 Romanian War of Independence. [ 1 ] From an early age, Berman became interested in photography, and as a child he spent time in the company of the itinerant photographers of Suceava and Cernăuți. [ 1 ]
The museum is composed of an area where there are many peasant houses and churches from various areas of Romania. Just like at the Romanian Peasant Museum , on the occasion of holidays such as Easter, Christmas, and the days of some saints, fairs are organized in which various artisans sell stalls on the streets of the museum of peasant art or ...
Image credits: Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer. Before color photography could exist, scientists had to first understand how light and color actually work. The journey began in the 17th ...
He designed and constructed the Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român (Romanian National Peasant Museum) [3] between 1912 and 1939, [1] added a new wing to the University of Bucharest in a collaboration with A. Baucher between 1928 and 1930, built Cuțitul de Argint Church, Saint Basil the Great Cathedral at No. 50 Polonă Street, the Radu ...
Nicolae Grigorescu (Romanian pronunciation: [nikoˈla.e ɡriɡoˈresku]; 15 May 1838 – 21 July 1907) was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting. He is considered by Romanians the greatest Romanian painter, and one of the founders of modern Romanian art. He is most known for paintings depicting rural life. [1]
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...