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[11 Nov 2020 | No Comment | ]
Nicolae Grigorescu and Agapia Monastery in Neamț. High echoes beyond the country’s borders

In the 4th episode of the “Who is Romania” show, Tessa Dunlop talks about Nicolae Grigorescu, the most famous painter of our country, who lived at the end of the 19th century, the man who “gave impressionism and realism their Romanian dimension”.
Maybe the most impressive work of the painter Nicolae Grigorescu is the painting made at the Agapia Monastery in Neamț. When she talks about the icons painted by Grigorescu, Tessa Dunlop challenges us: “even if you are an atheist, an uninitiated, try to look at the murals in the …