Romanian Revival architecture
.jpg)  .jpg) Top: The Cihoski House on Bulevardul Dacia, in Bucharest (Romania); Centre: The Cloister of the Stavropoleos Monastery by Ion Mincu, in Bucharest; Bottom: Part of the façade of the Marmorosch Blank Bank Palace on Strada Doamnei, in Bucharest (1754) | |
| Years active | late 19th century–first half of the 20th century |
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Romanian Revival architecture (a.k.a. Brânovenesc Revival, Neo-Romanian, or Neo-Brânovenesc; Template:Lang-ro) is an architectural style that has appeared in late 19th century in Romanian Art Nouveau,[1] initially being the result of the attempts of finding a specific Romanian architectural style. The attempts are mainly due to the architects Ion Mincu (1852-1912), and Ion N. Socolescu (1856-1924). The peak of the style was the interwar period. The style was a national reaction after the domination of French-inspired Classicist Eclecticism. Apart from foreign influences, the contribution of Romanian architects, who reinvented the tradition, creating, at the same time, an original style, is manifesting more and more strongly.[2] Ion Mincu and his successors, Grigore Cerchez, Cristofi Cerchez, Petre Antonescu, or Nicolae Ghica-Budești declared themselves for a modern architecture, with Romanian specific, based on theses such as those formulated by Alexandru Odobescu around 1870:
Study the remains - no matter how small - of the artistic production of the past and make them the source of a great art (...) do not miss any opportunity to use the artistic elements presented by the Romanian monuments left over from old times; but transform them, change them, develop them ...
Of course, such a program was not easy to accomplish. All the more so as the new types of urban architecture, especially those with many floors, demanded simple solutions, which hardly supported the world of medieval forms and ornaments or that of folklore, the main sources of inspiration of the style.[3]
See also
Notes
- ^ Paul, Constantin (1977). Mică Enciclopedie de Arhitectură, Arte Decorative și Aplicate Moderne (in Romanian). Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică. p. 109.
- ^ Popescu, Alexandru (2018). Casele și Palatele Bucureștilor (in Romanian). Editura Cetatea de Scaun. p. 69. ISBN 978-606-537-382-2.
- ^ Lucian, Boia (2016). România, Țară de Frontieră a Europei (in Romanian). Humanitas. p. 103 & 104. ISBN 978-973-50-5470-0.
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