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31/12/201105/01/2012Valentin Mandache

Wordle cloud - Historic Houses of Romania — Word cloud showing the most used 150 words of the front page of Historic Houses of Romania blog, generated by wordle.net on 30 December 2012

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Details of the northern doorway of Three Hierarchs church in Iasi, built by Vasile Lupu in the 17th c, aggressively renovated by Lecompte de Nouy (Viollet le Duc’s school) at the end of the 19th c, beginning of the 20th c. #threehierarchs #iasi #doorway #church #architecturehistory #casedeepoca #valentinmandache #balkans #moldavia #southeasteurope

A rare example Neo-Romanian style wood burning stove, in Casa Muresenilor Museum, Brasov, 1920s. #neoromanian #woodburningstove #brasov #transylvania #1920s #southeasteurope #casedeepoca

Bucharest cat encounter, Cotroceni area.

Moldavia study trip sample: one of the aggressively renovated (a Romanian speciality) at the beginning of the 20th c, Moldavian style edifices- the 15th c (Stephen the Great) Princely Court church in Harlau. #moldavia #moldavianstyle #stephenthegreat #harlau #balkans #southeasteurope #architecturehistory #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Moldavia study trip sample: one of the lesser known painted churches- Rasca (end of 14th c). #moldavia #moldavianstyle #paintedchurches #rasca #balkans #southeasteurope #architecturehistory #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Gothic together with Islamic art in the 17th c (Vasile Lupu) phase of the Moldavian style as seen in the doorway (an early 20th c reconstruction) between narthex and pronaos of Three Hierarchs church in Iasi, northern Moldavia. #gothic #islamicart #ottomanart #threehierarchs #iasi #moldavia #moldavianstyle #vasilelupu #architecturehistory #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Cucuteni Archaeological Site Museum, N Moldavia: an interesting brutalist structure from the heydays of Romania’s national-communism in the mid-1980s. It covers an excavated 4th c BCE Thracian (Dacian) tumulus, considered the true ancestors of communist Romanians (the Roman ancestry was jilted as imperial class enemy, not native enough). The building has architectural merits as the roof emulates the medieval Moldavian church roof outlines, while the wooden frame all encompassing windows are inspired from local Ottoman origin glazed verandas, the geamlac. The base uses the local sandstone. I just hope that a future renovation, with the usual EU money siphoned by corruption, will not result in the standard throughout Romania plastic frame windows and run of the mill industrial roofing. #cucuteni #tumulus #daciantomb #moldavia #brutalist #1980s #nationalcommunism #ceausescu #architecture #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

The 1660s built Deleni church in northern Moldavia, in the typical monumentality of the Moldavian style. At that time the Wallachian style, in the principality to the south, had just its first modest green-shoots. I like the Lombard band decorating this church, which is Gothic-ised (long after it has died elsewhere) in accordance to the Moldavian style’s tenets. #moldavianstyle #moldavia #deleni #lombardband #architecturehistory #balkans #casedeepoca #southeasteurope #casedeepoca

The main concern of the Moldavian style on its adoption and synthesis of Gothic within Byzantine architecture is monumentality, with less concern about structural incompatibilities. That is seen in the fact that Moldovan style churches do not have flying buttresses, which are instead replaced by interior walls, resulting in a three sector partition of the nave from west to east, as seen in this example at the 1503 built Dobrovat monastery church in northern Moldavia. #moldavianstyle #moldavianarchitecture #moldavia #gothic #dobrovat #monastery #architecturehistory #moldavia #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

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