Potlogi Palace is an early 18th century edifice built by Italian architects for the Wallachian prince Constantin Brancoveanu, where one can still find structural elements, especially in the basement, typical of a Venetian villa rustica, decorated with an original panoply of motifs inspired from Ottoman art, but also indigenous Wallachian sources, which constituted a unique style, encountered in similar edifices commissioned by Brancoveanu and his contemporaries (i.e. Mogosoaia Palace), termed by some specialists as “Romanian Renaissance”, but usually called “Brancovan” after the name of the prince and his family. The national style of Romania, also called Neoromanian, which emerged in the late 19th c and unfurled for over six decades afterwards, uses in large part the Brancovan inheitance.
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I endeavor through this daily image series to inspire appreciation of the historic houses of Romania, a virtually undiscovered, but fascinating chapter of European architectural heritage.
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Valentin Mandache, architectural historian 