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Theodor Aman
History painter and founder of Romanian art education.
Aman studied in Paris and became the leading Romanian academic painter of the 19th century, known for monumental scenes from national history and refined bourgeois interiors. He was the first director of the Bucharest School of Fine Arts (1864). His house-studio in Bucharest, which he designed himself, is now a museum.
Works
Notable works
№ 01
The Battle of Oltenița
No freely-licensed image
№ 01 · 1854The Battle of Oltenița
Oil on canvas
№ 02
Vlad Țepeș and the Turkish Envoys
No freely-licensed image
№ 02 · 1862–63Vlad Țepeș and the Turkish Envoys
Oil on canvas
National Museum of Art of Romania
- № 03 · 1857
Hora of the Union at Craiova
Oil on canvas
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