Caraiman Cross
Image description The image depicts the Heroes monument in the shape of a cross as a steel scaffold. At the bottom of the monument is the concrete socket with a brick-like texture. The access door to the former generator room can also be seen, it is represented as a...
King Carol First of Romania
also known as Carol I of of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (b. 20 April 1839, Sigmaringen, d. 10 October 1914, Sinaia) Image description The bust image presents a man over 45 years old, with short hair, beard and a moustache, a long and straight nose, full lips, prominent...
Casa Scânteii (House of the Free Press)
Image description It’s a massive building with a texture made out of bricks. It has 5 towers out of which the centered one is the highest of all. On its façade there are multiple embossed windows. Historical facts The House of the Free Press, known during the...
Encyclopedia of Romania (4 volumes, 1938-1943)
Image description The image presents four book tomes, visualized laterally, from the shelf-back. The books are represented through a texture of rare points covered towards the two sides with a strip of golden thread, presented through thin, oblique lines. The upper...
Flag of the Romanian Communist Party
Image description The emblem has on its centre the famous hammer and sickle heading up at a 45 degree angle. On both sides we can see two wreaths of wheat. Above we can see the letters PCR (standing for the Romanian Communist Party) and, underneath, a bent ribbon can...
Henri (Henry) Berthelot
(b. December 7th 1861, Feurs, France, d. January 29th 1931, Paris, France) Image description This image shows the bust of the French general. He is wearing a military cap with stylized oak leaves ornaments – they appear to be golden in the original image. He has a...
Gheorghe Ursu
Image Description He is a man of over 40 years old, with short hair and sideburns, droopy eyelids, a prominent jaw, wearing a suit. His broad forehead is outlined by a pattern of dense, small ‘x’-letters that represent his curly hair. His shirt is depicted by a...
1907 Romanian Peasants’ revolt
Image description The image is a representation of a painting by Octav Băncilă. On the left side of the painting there is a peasant running barefoot, with long hair (X type texture), dressed in a long, light, cloth (undulating line texture), with a protruding belt on...
1859 – The Unification of the Principalities
Image description The drawing represents the side of a coin issued on 23rd of January 2009, paying tribute to 150 years since the Small Union. The coin is 35mm in diameter, it weights 31 grams, and it is made of 99, 9% pure gold, with smooth edge. This drawing shows...
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 21, 1685, Eisenach, died July 28, 1750, Leipzig, Germany) Description of the image He is wearing a wig on his head, as the nobles of his time wore. He has a fixed look ahead, although his head is slightly turned to his left....
King Michael the First of Romania
Image Description It’s a recent image of Its Majesty in its eighties, with a gentle look and a gentle expression, with short hair and a prominent nose dressed in a suit. The broad forehead is contoured by the bristle hair on the back, with a side-to-side track,...
The State Historical Museum in Moscow
Image Description The State Historical Museum is a red brick building with crowded details in the Baroque style of Moscow, dating back to the 17th-18th centuries. That is why the predominant texture in this representation is brick and represents the body of the...
Helsinki Cathedral
Image Description Helsinki Cathedral is on a high plateau, in the Senate Plaza. To reach it, you have to climb e few flights of stairs as wide as the building (they were not represented in the image to not make it unnecessarily complicated). The building has 3 tall...
The Golaniad (22 April-15 June 1990)
Image description Historical information Golan (literally bum, thug) is the pejorative term used by Ion Iliescu, the president of the National Salvation Front, to designate the protesters who had occupied the University Square in Bucharest starting 22 April 1990. The...
Vinyl disc
Description of image The image represents a vinyl disk, with an embossed full texture on the left and the protective envelope on the right. A vinyl disk is a round (usually black) disk with a small hole in the middle where the ax of the vinyl player holds in place...
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...Like Us On Facebook
