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Architectural Styles

  • Art Deco
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  • Brancovan
  • Ethnographic
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Ktetor generations (panels about 2x2m) at Darvari chapel in Bucharest, showing the transition from an Oriental mentality (1st panel, mid-1830s) to a Western one (2nd panel, late 1860s). That uneven and sometimes convulsive transition is still going on at the level of the mass of the population in Romania. #ktetor #mentalities #westernisation #wallachia #darvari #bucharest #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
A true descendant of the Phanariotes, the elite Ottoman Greeks. Darvari Chapel, Bucharest. #bucharest #darvari #phanariotes #balkans #ottomanempire #wallachia #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
Today is the birthday of Emperor Trajan (53 CE, Italica, near today Seville), the conqueror of Dacia, and the initiator of the Romanian ethnogenesis. The historian Nicolae Iorga explained the commonalities between the Romanian language and the Spanish/ Portuguese ones through Trajan’s colonisation in what is now Romania of veterans from his native Hispania Baetica. This is a bronze coin from my collection (a sestertius), minted in Rome at about 110 CE. #sestertius #trajan #emperortrajan #dacia #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
Bucharest Little Paris style facade from the late 1890s, with Neo-Romanian style influences (Lombard band and arched windows), in Cismigiu area. #littleparis #neoromanian #1890s #lombardband #bucharest #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
Nice evening at the British Ambassador’s residence in Bucharest, for the book launch reception of the remarkable work “Children of the Night” by Paul Kenyon (included the Romanian edition). Here I am in the company of Mrs Helen Noble, the Ambassadress, and the Priest of Bucharest’s Anglican church, my spiritual centre, Fr. Nevsky Everett. A wonderful experience, in which we commemorated our late Queen, and for me the first proper post-pandemic cultural event in Bucharest. #ukinromania #britishculturalevent #booklanch #bucharest #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
A 1900s Bucharest porte-cochère, the gate for horse driven coaches of a large town house. Calea Victoriei - Calea Grivitei area. #1900s #littleparis #portecochere #bucharest #balkans #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
In Bucharest, sometime ago, discussing about architectural history. #tourguide #archtecturaltour #bucharest #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
My customary monthly fresh haircut selfie in front of the Greek Church of Bucharest. This theme is appropriately called “September Light” by Bogdan, my talented hairdresser. #freshhaircut #bucharest #greekchurch #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
My sorrows among the Romanian “intelligentsia”.

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