RO-ART-1820-GT
Gheorghe Tattarescu
Neoclassical portraitist and church painter, co-founder of the Bucharest School of Fine Arts.
Trained in Rome, Tattarescu brought Italian neoclassicism to the Romanian lands. He painted the murals of more than fifty churches, portraits of the 1848 revolutionaries, and the allegory 'Romania's Awakening'. In 1864 he co-founded the National School of Fine Arts in Bucharest with Theodor Aman.
Works
Notable works
- № 01 · 1851
Portrait of Nicolae Bălcescu
Oil on canvas
National Museum of Art of Romania
- № 02 · 1849
Romania's Awakening
Oil on canvas
№ 03
Murals of the Metropolitan Cathedral
No freely-licensed image
№ 03 · 1880sMurals of the Metropolitan Cathedral
Mural
Iași
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