USR
Image description The image represents the logo of Save Romania Union. It is a square represented with embossed texture. In the middle, there is an empty space slash and the acronym of the party underneath: USR (Uniunea Salvați România) Historical data USR is a...
University of Iasi
Image description The University of Iasi is a massive building with one floor. The ground level is represented by horizontal lines on which the embossed entrance can be observed. The windows have an oval shape on the upper side and are straight on the bottom. The roof...
The Great Depression
Image description The image is a representation of Dorothea Lange’s picture from 1936, California, representing a migrant mother, hugged by 2 small kids who are represented a little further from her so that you can better understand their bodies. The mother is...
Teohari Georgescu
(b. 31 January 1908, Bucharest, d. 31 December 197, Bucharest) Image description The image depicts a man who is over 40 years old, with a receding hairline, bushy eyebrows, curved nose with prominent nostrils and a heavy jaw. He is wearing a suit. The head is framed...
Teoctist, the Patriach of the Romanian Orthodox Church
Teoctist Arăpașu (b. Feburary 7 1915, Tocileni, d. July 30 2007, Bucharest) Image description We are presented with the image of a man well over 85, with small eyes, curved nose, prominent nostrils, arched eyebrows and long chin. He is dressed in clerical clothing....Socialist Party
Image description Historical information During the period following the Revolution of 1848, socialist ideas would become known in Romania through newspapers such as Lucrătorul român – The Romanian Worker – or Telegraful român – The Romanian...
The Sighet Penitentiary
Image description It’s a frontal view of the building. It is marked by a texture made up of parallel horizontal lines. It has 3 floors (ground level and 2 floors) – in the image we can also see the oblique lines used to depict the windows. In the middle there is a...
1877 – Romania’s Independence
Image description The image is a representation of the coin issued at the anniversary of 100 years of the Romanian Independence War of 1877; this is why the drawing is encased in a protruding circle. An eagle (textured with projected dots) on top of a rock (textured...
Queen Mary’s traditional costume
Image description Queen Mary was in love with the traditional folk costume. She is often photographed wearing traditional outfits. In this image she is wearing a white headscarf (x texture). The large-sleeved blouse is shown by a curvy texture. She has on only the...
Queen Elizabeth (Queen consort of Romania)
Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise of Wied (n. 29 December 1843, Schloss Monrepos – d. 2 March 1916, Curtea de Argeș Cathedral) Image description The image is one from the queen’s youth. She is represented here with voluminous and coifed hair, big eyes, a long and...
Petru Groza
(b. 7 December 1884, Băcia, Hunedoara, d. 7 January 1958, Bucharest) Image description We are shown a somber man, well over 40, with a receding hairline, bushy eyebrows, curved and long nose, sharp cheekbones and bony jaw line. He is wearing a suit. The top of...
Petru Dumitriu
(b. 8th of May 1924, Baziaș, Caraș, d. 6th of April 2002, Metz, France) Image description We are shown a man over 35, with short hair, arched and bushy eyebrows and a prominent nose. He is smiling and is wearing a suit. His forehead is highlighted by his thick hair...
Peleş Castle
Image description In this image, Peleş Castle is pictured with 4 (four) of its towers, which have high lightning rods at their tips. The rooftops are represented with a fish-scale texture. The body of the castle (the lower part of the image) is represented through a...
The Pegas bicycle
Image description The image is side view of the Pegas bicycle, popular model in Communist Romania, facing left. It is of low height, with a low wide saddle and high triangle shaped handlebar. The embossed lines stand for the steel frame of the bicycle. The framework...
Paul Goma
(b. 2 October 1935, Mana) Image description It’s a man, over 35 years old, wearing glasses, with short hair and a beard, big eyes and a curved nose. He is wearing a suit. His forehead is wide and outlined by his slicked back hair. He also has sideburns and a...Odessa Massacre
Image description Historical information On 31st of July 1941, general Ion Antonescu ensured the German chancellor Adolf Hitler that the Romanian Army will fight alongside Germany “until the end” [Bibliography 1], without any Romanian-German military conditions. The...
Nadia Comăneci
(b. 12 November 1961, Onești) Image description The bust picture shows a young woman over 16 years old, with a wide smile, with shoulder-length hair and bangs, prominent jaw, dressed in a blouse tight on the body. The texture with small and dense Xs is the circular...
Miron Cozma
Image description He is a 40-year-old man, with long and curly hair on his back, long, bulging nose, full lips, a double-chin and prominent ears, wearing a suit. The broad forehead is contoured by the bristle hair on the back, rendered by the texture of small and...
Mihail Sadoveanu
(b. 5 November 1880, Pașcani, d. 19 October 1961, Vânători-Neamț) Image description He is a man over 50, massive with short and bulky hair, large eyes, thick eyebrows and a bony jaw, and a prominent jowl, dressed lightly. The forehead is contoured by hair combed on...
Mihail Kogălniceanu
(b. 6 September 1817, Iași, d. 1 July 1891, Paris) Image description He is a man over 65 years old, bald in the middle of his head and having hair on both sides of his head, bushy eyebrows, moustache and goatee, protruding chin and bulging nose, wearing a suit. The...
Martha Bibescu
Image description She is a woman over 30 years old, with short, stylized hair, long eyebrows, straight, long nose, wearing elegant clothes. Her forehead is outlined by the curly hair, combed sideways, represented by a pattern of slightly curbed lines. The texture of...
Alexandru Marghiloman
(b. 4 July 1954, Buzău, d. 10 May 1925, Buzău) Image Description He is an elegant man, slightly over 60 years old, with a receding hairline, long sideburns and moustache, dressed in a suit. His face is outlined by a pattern of many slightly curved lines which...
The Great Seal of the Romanian Kingdom
Image description This is the Romanian seal between the two world wars. The upper part shows a crown (plusses texture) which is the starting point of a curtain (circles texture) on either side, with threads on either side. The center pictures a shield (curves texture)...
Map of Romanian gulag
Image description The image shows the map of Romania with blank rectangular markings for penitentiaries, round disk markings for forced labor camps, triangular markings for deportation centers, oval markings for detention and inquiry centers, and cross markings for...Warning: implode(): Invalid arguments passed in /home/touching/public_html/wp-content/plugins/facebook-pagelike-widget/fb_class.php on line 42
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