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The #throne of the Principality of #wallachia , in #wallachian design style, made in 1767, and used by the Greek #phanariot Prince Scarlat Gyka. National Museum of Art, Bucharest. #ottomanempire #casedeepoca #southeasteurope ##architecturephotography #fener
In the background is the #river #olt , in #latin #alutus , while the photograph is taken from the hills on the right bank, the old #roman #limes of the province of #dacia , dominating the lower latitude ground on the left bank, where was the #barbaricum . Bucharest, the Romanian capital is located in that Barbaricum, a quite fitting #metaphor . #architecturehistory #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #architecturephotography #oltenia #wallachia #romanempire #balkans
Your expert in historic houses is a bit of a giant compared to the #horezu people of the late 18th c who were using this beautiful #wallachian style church #portal . #oltenia #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #architecturephotography #architecture #architecturehistory #wallachianstyle #balkans #urch
And now a #filmset costume similar in many aspects with the one of Tudor Vladimirescu, shown in the previous posting. Remarkable as usual is the funny #phanariot hat, typical of the 1800s-1840s period in #wallachia and #moldavia . This costume has featured in the movie #aferim , and is kept at Cula Greceanu, #maldaresti , #oltenia . #southeasteurope #fener #casedeepoca #architecturephotography #boyar #balkans
Some more #istanbul #phanariot costumes, in this instance Tudor Vladimirescu and boyar Gheorghe and wife, in the 1810s, in a #votivepainting from Prejna church in #oltenia . Vladimirescu was the leader of the anti-Greek/ Phanariot national revolution in #wallachia in 1821, a very important figure in the nationalist ideology. Vladimirescu’s likening was unknown before unearthing of this painting in the inter-war period. Instead he is known in the collective memory from the invented likening by the 1870s romantic painter Theodor Aman, an interesting case of national myth-making. National Museum of Art, #bucharest . #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #architecturephotography #boyar #fener #balkans
And now a bit of a wolf in sheep’s clothing: Prince Barbu Stirbey in the 1850s, a representative of a generation who initially was wearing #ottoman #phanariot attire, but practically over the night became “western or bust” starting with the 1840s. Their mentality and that of their descendants remained however middle-eastern, only their clothes became western. This Stirbey is also infamous for the Gothic reconstruction of the Bistrita monastery, previously one of the most important #wallachian style monuments, a sort of behaviour encountered ever since in the Romanian lands. National Museum of Art, #bucharest . #aristocracy #phanariot #southeasteurope #balkans #casedeepoca #architecturephotography #ottomanempire
This one is even better in expounding the strong #middleeastern component of the Romanian #identity : the painting of the governor Grigore Brancoveanu, a Wallachian Romanian, shown here with a nice #turban and #dagger in the #charshaf belt, cca 1820s. National Museum of Art, #bucharest . #aristocracy #phanariot #southeasteurope #fener #casedeepoca #ottomanempire #wallachia #architecturephotography #boyar
This is an 1840s high #aristocracy / #boyardom Romanian: #boyar Radu Filipescu, whose family also owned the land of my birth village in southeast #romania . He was the treasurer of the #phanariot princely court, the #istanbul Greeks appointed as #dragoman of #wallachia or #moldavia by the #sultan . I like the #dagger stuck into the belt silk #charshaf . National Museum of Art, #bucharest . #southeasteurope #fener #casedeepoca #architecturephotography #balkans
18th c #phanariot princes of #wallachia and #moldova sporting #istanbul #fener funny hats and oriental attire. From left the right: Grigore Gyka II, Matei Gyka, Grigore Gyka III. They were Greeks originating from the Archipelagos, appointed by the sultan, as loyal subjects, to govern the Danubian vialets with their capital in Bucharest and Jassy repectively. National Museum of Art, Bucharest. #dragoman #phanariot #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #ottomanempire #balkans #architecturephotography

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