Museum night 2022

14.05.2022

Craiova Art Museum

Jean Mihail Palace

The Craiova Art Museum proposes to the visiting public of the Museum Night, 2022 edition, an exhibition that includes works of art representing great personalities of Craiova of yesteryear. Attitudes, gestures and looks outline the faces of notable people from the artistic, diplomatic and administrative-legal world of the city with "the most chosen and numerous nobility in the country", as Nicolae Iorga mentions at the beginning of the 20th century. Works of sculpture, graphics or painting depict portraits such as that of Nicolae Romanescu, mayor of Craiova at the end of the 19th century - beginning of the 20th century, of Alexandru Aman, magistrate, great philanthropist of the city and brother of the painter Theodor Aman, of Ion Țuculescu, painter, biologist and doctor, along with portraits of other local personalities.