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Among the diverse and extremely valuable collections of the Pele\u0219 National Museum, the glass collection stands out for its beauty and refinement, which we present in this second catalog dedicated to the editorial valorization of the movable national cultural heritage that decorates the interiors of the Pele\u0219 Castle in Sinaia, an emblematic monument of the European historical phenomenon, created from the unparalleled initiative and passion of our first king.<\/p>\n
Published<\/strong>: 2019, Sinaia<\/em> To this talented and hardworking Czech architect we dedicate the exhibition and catalogue entitled Karel Liman. Architect of the Royal House of Romania, in which we try to present the remarkable architectural monuments that he designed and built in Romania. Sinaia, Bran, Cotroceni, L\u0103pu\u0219na or Cop\u0103ceni are some of the royal residences to which the architect Liman definitively linked his name, collaborating admirably with King Carol I and Queen Maria of Romania.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2019, Sinaia<\/em> On February 18\/March 5, 2016, it was one hundred years since the passing of Queen Elisabeth of Romania. A fascinating personality of our modern history, a very special figure of the Romanian royal family, whom the Pele\u0219 National Museum is now paying tribute to by organizing a special exhibition. An exhibition that aims to present to lovers of beauty a special portrait of the sovereign-poet Carmen Sylva by displaying valuable heritage pieces from the collections of the Pele\u0219 National Museum.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2019, Sinaia<\/em> Published<\/strong>: 2019, Sinaia<\/em> April 20, 2019 marked the 180th anniversary of the birth of Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern Sigmaringen in Sigmaringen Castle (Germany) in 1839. He was the first king of modern Romania, to whose development he made an essential contribution. He was very proud of his ancestors, whom he portrayed in the Hall of Honor of Pele\u0219 Castle, trying to create a gallery of ancestors in his residence, as he had seen in his childhood and youth spent at his family's castle in Sigmaringen. "The fact that he was among the Hohenzollerns - wrote his first biographer, Paul Lindenberg - always filled him with fully justified pride, but precisely for this reason he wanted to conquer by his own strength and as a result of his baggage of knowledge and skills the place that other princes consider as something that is simply theirs. This explains much of the mentality of the young prince, as well as the later development of the prince and king, who constantly imposed the highest demands on himself and who, in his soldierly simplicity, repeatedly explained: 'What a man can do himself, he should not let be done by another'".<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2019, Sinaia<\/em> "By publishing this selective catalogue of the Furniture Collection of the Pele\u0219 National Museum, we are initiating a series of publications dedicated to the valorisation of the decorative art collections that enrich the heritage of the most important architectural ensemble of the historical phenomenon in Romania. Intrinsically linked to Pele\u0219 Castle and its creator, King Carol I, all these collections of paintings, weapons, furniture, ceramics, glass, goldsmithing - still constitute today the supreme testimony to the refined collecting taste of the king with the longest reign in the history of the country. From this point of view, King Carol I remains not only the most important collector of modern Romania, but also one of the most knowledgeable among the European monarchs of his time." <\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2018, Sinaia<\/em> The study offers a series of considerations regarding the history of Pele\u0219 Castle. The author focuses on the collection of heritage objects within the museum. Following the inventory in 1948, the Pele\u0219 Castle collection included the following art objects: 298 main paintings, 487 secondary paintings and engravings, 1,062 "valueless" paintings, 150 icons, 1,988 display items, 4,879 weapons and medals, 343 carpets, 429 furniture, 210 stained glass windows, 331 sculptures, 9,370 books. <\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2018, Sinaia<\/em> On December 1, 2018, we celebrate a century since the realization of the Great Union, a dream in the realization of which King Ferdinand I, nicknamed "The Unifier", and his august wife, Queen Maria, played a decisive role - along with the Romanian people and the political class of those times. As was natural, in the Year of the Centennial of the Great Union, the Pele\u0219 National Museum celebrates this crucial event in Romanian history by organizing the temporary exhibition The Royal Family and the Great Union, which will present to the visiting public and history lovers heritage objects, documents and period photographs relevant to the shaping of the events of a century ago in which members of the Romanian Royal Family played an overwhelming role.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2018, Sinaia<\/em> Published<\/strong>: 2018, Sinaia<\/em> On July 18, 2018, in the Year of the Centennial of the Great Union, we commemorate eight decades since the passing into eternity of Queen Maria, the only queen of Greater Romania, a dream in the realization of which she played a decisive role alongside her august husband, King Ferdinand I, the one who became "The Unifier". As the title of this work suggests - which happily completes the exhibition that the Pele\u0219 National Museum is organizing in memory of the great queen who was Maria of Romania - we propose to history and art lovers a special portrait of the one nicknamed "the soldier queen" or "the mother of the wounded", for the devotion with which she was involved in the Great War a century ago.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2018, Sinaia<\/em> This study represents an exhibition catalogue dedicated to the ceramics and glass collection of the Pele\u0219 National Museum. The ceramics collection includes over 5,000 pieces.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2017, Sinaia<\/em> The study provides a series of specialized information on the Flemish and Dutch art collection of King Charles I. The collection includes paintings, goldsmith's goods, a harpsichord, furniture, and ceramics.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: 2016, Sinaia<\/em> The Art Nouveau style defined both the end and the beginning of a century, giving personality to an era and encompassing all artistic genres related to the external or internal environment. Queen Elisabeth and especially Queen Maria of Romania completed the collection of the Royal House, initially established by King Carol I, with important acquisitions of Art Nouveau pieces, happily reunited at Peli\u015for Castle in Sinaia.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: September 2013, Sinaia<\/em> Art and Ceremoniality at Royal Tables introduces us to the daily life of the royal families of Romania from 1866 to 1930, Carol I and Elisabeta, Ferdinand and Maria, from Pele\u015f Castle, Peli\u015for Castle and the Royal Palaces of Bucharest. Exemplary in his honesty and very demanding of himself, King Carol I of Romania led an almost austere life. Interestingly, in his personal life, the king behaved naturally, as a man with a passion for collecting, sensitive to art and the beauties of nature, with unsophisticated culinary preferences and offering hospitality to the personalities invited to Pele\u015f Castle.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: December 2014, Sinaia<\/em> This year marks a century since the historical moment when Romania decided its pre-war orientation, through the voice of its politicians. Freed from the barriers imposed by the old regime, eternally sensitive to Moscow's sensitivities, an important part of the historiography of the last decades frames the Crown Council of August 3, 1914, in a broader context, which does not avoid the counterfactual approach and which is based on extensive archival documentation.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: August 2014, Sinaia<\/em> The phenomenon of copying can be understood from a contemporary perspective as a historicist approach, in which the fascination of the past speaks for itself. In the absence of famous originals, copies after great masters were intended to give the royal residence a sumptuous character and to contribute to aesthetic education in an era when color reproduction did not yet exist. Operated by Carol I, the selection of works to be copied reflected the King's preferences for religious subjects. An educational tool, with valences for decorating the castle interiors, the copy acquires a documentary value, attesting to a very good knowledge on the part of the commissioner of the history of European painting present in the great museums.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: June 2014, Sinaia<\/em> Sinaia Castles thus become a place of interference of the arts where, alongside young classical music performers, the young winners of this competition have the opportunity to exhibit. Now in its third edition, the event was received with great seriousness by young people aged between 7 and 29, with 152 entries with 760 works. The jury was faced with a real challenge, evaluating the works submitted online for the four disciplines.<\/p>\n Published<\/strong>: June 2014, Sinaia<\/em>
\ntexts<\/strong>: Cornelia Dumitrescu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Karel Liman. Architect of the Royal House of Romania<\/a> (36MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: Dr. Narcis Dorin Ion, Ruxanda Beldiman, Dr. Mircea Hortopan<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Queen Elizabeth of Romania. A Century of Eternity<\/a> (97MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: academician Dan Berindei, university professor Dr. Ion Bulei, Dr. Narcis Dorin Ion<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> King Carol I \u2013 the founder of modern Romania, vol. 2<\/a> (80MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: Narcis Dorin Ion, Doina Pauleanu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> King Carol I \u2013 the founder of modern Romania, vol. 1<\/a> (70MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: Dan Berindei, Ion Bulei, Narcis Dorin Ion, Nicolae St. Noica<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> The furniture collection of the Pele\u0219 National Museum \u2013 Selective catalog<\/a> (23MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: Liliana Manoliu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Pele\u0219 Castle, its museum and collections<\/a> (73MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: Narcis Dorin Ion, Mircea Alexandru Hortopan, Corina Dumitrache, Alexandra Ghioarca, Raluca Romok, Macrina Oproiu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> The Royal Family and the Great Union<\/a> (31MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nCoordinator and co-author<\/strong>: Dr. Narcis Dorin Ion<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Maria of Romania, portrait of a great queen, vol. 2<\/a> (103MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: academician R\u0103zvan Theodorescu, university professor Dr. Ion Bulei, Dr. Ioan Dr\u0103gan, Dr. Narcis Dorin Ion<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Maria of Romania, portrait of a great queen, vol. 1<\/a> (97MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: academician R\u0103zvan Theodorescu, university professor Dr. Ion Bulei, Dr. Ioan Dr\u0103gan, Dr. Narcis Dorin Ion<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> The arts of fire \u2013 ceramics and glass from the collections of the Pele\u0219 National Museum<\/a> (243MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: Dr. Narcis Dorin Ion, Dr. Macrina Oproiu, Cornelia Dumitrescu, Rodica Rot\u0103rescu, Liliana Manoliu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Flemish and Dutch art in the collection of King Carol I of Romania <\/a> (29MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\ntexts<\/strong>: Dr. Narcis Dorin Ion, Dr. Mircea Hortopan, Drd. Macrina Oproiu, Liliana Manoliu, Daniela Voitescu, Corina Dumitrache, Alexandra Ghioarc\u0103, Nihaela Negutescu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Art Nouveau - 110 Years in Romania<\/a> (15MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nDetails<\/strong>: 276 pages, A4<\/em>
\nDTP, photos<\/strong>: Alexander Duta<\/em>
\ntexts<\/strong>: Macrina Oproiu, Rodica Rotarescu, Mircea Hortopan, Liliana Manoliu, Cornelia Dumitrescu, Izabela Torok, Corina Dumitrache<\/em>
\nTranslation<\/strong>: Irina Voicu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Art and Ceremonial at Royal Tables<\/a> (238MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nDetails<\/strong>: 92 pages, A4<\/em>
\nDTP, photos<\/strong>: Alexander Duta<\/em>
\ntexts<\/strong>: Liliana Manoliu, Corina Dumitrache, Macrina Oproiu, Izabela Torok, Laura Avram, Cornelia Dumitrescu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Crown Council \u2013 100 Years of Romania's Neutrality<\/a> (3MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nDetails<\/strong>: 54 pages, A4<\/em>
\nDTP, photos<\/strong>: Alexander Duta<\/em>
\ntexts<\/strong>: Macrina Oproiu, Corina Dumitrache, Izabela Torok, Ionut Banu, Laura Avram<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> Copyist Painters in the Gallery of King Carol I<\/a> (5MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nDetails<\/strong>: 140 pages, A4<\/em>
\nDTP, photos<\/strong>: Alexander Duta<\/em>
\ntexts<\/strong>: Ruxanda Beldiman<\/em>
\nTranslation<\/strong> Cristina Hagau<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/i> \u201cCarmen Sylva\u201d National Competition for Young Talents \u2013 2014 Edition<\/a> (74MB)<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nDetails<\/strong>: 40 pages, A4<\/em>
\nDTP, photos<\/strong>: Alexander Duta<\/em>
\ntexts<\/strong>: Daniela Voitescu<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n