The National Museum of Art of Romania
The National Museum of Art of Romania
Founded in 1948, the museum houses vast collections representing various fields. The Romanian Mediaeval Art Gallery comprises the most representative mediaeval heritage of this country illustrating the evolution of the arts in Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania, from the 10th century to the 19th century (furniture, textiles, silverware and ornaments, pottery, icons, manuscripts, decorative or funerary sculpture, mural paintings). The Romanian Modern Art Gallery, whose collections come mostly from the former State Painting Collection, the Simu, Toma Stelian, Kalinderu museums, as well as from private collections, illustrates the evolution of Romanian painting and sculpture from the end of the 18th century to mid 20th century. There are on display outstanding works of seminal Romanian artists, like the painters Constantin Lecca, MisuPopp, Theodor Aman, Gheorghe Tattarescu, Carol Popp de Szathmari, Sava Hentia, Constantin Stahi, Gheorghe Panaiteanu-Bardasare, Nicolae Grigorescu, Ioan Andreescu, Stefan Luchian, George Demetrescu Mirea, Arthur Verona, Nicolae Vermont, Ipolit Strambu, Apcar Baltazar, Gheorghe Petrascu, Theodor Pallady, Nicolae Tonitza, Camil Ressu, Stefan Dimitrescu, Francisc Sirato, Iosif Iser, Jean Al. Steriadi, Nicolae Darascu, Samuel Mutzner, Stefan Popescu, Cecilia Cutescu-Storck, Vasile Popescu, Sabin Popp, Eustatiu Stoenescu, Ion Theodorescu-Sion, Max Herman Maxy, Lascar Vorel, Alexandru Phoebus, Victor Brauner, Elena Popeea, Dimitrie Ghiata, Marius Bunescu, Lucian Grigorescu, Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpana, Henri Catargi, Catul Bogdan, Stefan Constantinescu, Ion Musceleanu, Aurel Ciupe, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Ion Tuculescu, Corneliu Baba or the sculptors Karl Storck, Ioan Georgescu, Stefan Ionescu-Valbudea, Carol Storck, Dimitrie Paciurea, Constantin Brancusi, Frederik Storck, Oscar Spaethe, Cornel Medrea, Oscar Han, Ion Jalea, Gheorghe D. Anghel, Romul Ladea, Mac Constantinescu, Vida Geza, Constantin Baraschi, Boris Caragea, Ion Vlasiu, Ion Irimescu, Zoe Baicoianu, Iulia Onita, Ion Vlad, George Apostu. The World Art Gallery comprises mostly paintings and sculptures from the former royal collection, the Simu, and Toma Stelian museums, the Professor Ioan Cantacuzino, and Professor George Oprescu collections etc. The are important Italian works by Domenico Veneziano, Antonello da Messina, Bramantino, Tiziano Vecellio, Giacomo da Ponte Bassano, Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto, Lorenzo Lotto, Guido Reni, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Spanish ones by El Greco, Juseppe Ribera, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Velasquez, Flemish ones by Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jacob Jordaens, Anthonis van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Snyders, Dutch ones by Rembrandt, Jan van Goyen, Albert Cuyp, German ones by Albrecht Altdorfer, Lucas Cranach, Russian ones by Ilia Repin, Ivan Konstantinovici Aivazowski, Valentin Serov, French ones by Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Eugene Delacroix, Camille Pissaro, Auguste Renoir, Paul Signac, Honoré Daumier, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Jules Dalou, Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle. The collection of stamps and engravings comprises an impressive number of Romanian and European graphic works coming mostly from the funds of the Toma Stelian Museum, private collections, acquisitions, etc. There are over 40, 000 works (original drawings, engravings, lithographs, posters) by various Romanian, French, Flemish, Italian, Dutch, German, English, and Spanish artists. The Eastern and Far Eastern Art Gallery includes sculptures, ceramics, ornaments, amulettes, astronomic instruments, imperial emblems, decorative items, stamps, paintings, carpets, embroidery, robes belonging to Chinese art (the Han, Tang, Sung, Ming and Tsing dynasties), Japanese art (artists like Sessho Toyo Oda, Sesson, Settei Tsukinoda, Hokusai Katsushika, Kyiomoto Torii, Masonobu Okumura, Kyionaga Torii, Utamaro Kitagawa Toyoaki, Hiroshige Utagawa), Persian art, etc. Also the collection of decorative art is richly represented.
