Elaborating Complex Methodologies Regarding the Attribution and Authentication of Medieval and Early Modern Paintings Belonging to the National Cultural Heritage
Coordonator
"GEORGE OPRESCU" INSTITUTE FOR HISTORY OF ART (IIAGO)
Members of the implementation team
Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, director of the Complex Project
Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu is a rank I scientific researcher and the director of the Art History Institute "G. Oprescu "in Bucharest. He graduated the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, the Department of History and Art Theory (1975), and in 1997 he received his Ph.D. in Historical Sciences - the specialty of universal modern history. Fields of specialization: the history of Romanian and universal art, the nineteenth century; ethnography and Romanian folk art; extra-European ethnography; the history of the civilian and military costume; the history of photography and film. He is the author of the Art and Document Works. Documentary art in nineteenth century Romania (Bucharest, 1990), Romanian artistic education 1830-1892 (Bucharest, 1999), Romanian fashion, 1790-1850. Between Stambul and Paris (Bucharest, 2001) - "Simion Mehedinţi" Prize of the Historical Shop Foundation, Portraits in the History of Romanian Art (Norresundby, Denmark, 2001), The Official Art Movement in Romania of the 19th Century (Bucharest, 2008) - IC Award Filitti "Foundation of the Historical Shop Foundation, Fashion and Urban Society in Modern Romania (Bucharest, 2006) -" Nicolae Bălcescu "Prize of the" Historical Store "Foundation.
Dr. Dana Jenei - director of the component Project I
Dr. Dana Jenei is rank III researcher at the Art History Institute "G. Oprescu "in Bucharest, the visual arts and architecture department - the medieval period, and an expert of the Ministry of Culture in the field of historical monuments research. He graduated the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, the Department of History and Theory of Art / Museology, obtaining at the same institution, today the National University of Arts, a doctoral degree in Gothic Mural Painting in Transylvania. Ensembles of the 15th century (2005). In the years 2011-2013 she was a postdoctoral scholar of the Romanian Academy, with the Transylvanian Renaissance project - cultural identity in European context (academic coordinator Răzvan Theodorescu). She has published numerous studies of the history of Transylvanian art in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the main field of research. He is the author of Gothic mural paintings in Transylvania (Bucharest, 2007) - the diploma of merit of the Ministry of Culture, Transylvanian Renaissance - cultural identity in European context (Bucharest, 2013), Gothic in Transylvania. Painting (c.1300-1500) (Bucharest, 2016)..
Dr. Constantin I. Ciobanu – member of the component Project I
Dr. Constantin I. Ciobanu is a rank II researcher at the Art History Institute "G. Oprescu "in Bucharest, coordinator of the department" Visual arts and architecture - medieval period ". A graduate of the Moscow State University "Mihail V. Lomonosov" (1984), holds the doctoral thesis in the history of art and the doctoral thesis at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova (2005). He has published numerous critical studies and art history, with the main field of research being medieval painting on the territory of Moldova. He is the author of the works The Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in Căuşeni (Chisinau, 1997), The Patrimoinum of the Republic of Moldova (Chisinau, 1999 and 2014), Stihia propheticului (Chisinau, 2007), The National Art Museum of Moldova: Painting Collection (Chisinau, 2015) ), Études sur la peinture mediaeval roumaine (Saarbrücken, 2017). For the book Icons from Basarabene collections (Chisinau, 2000) he received the National Prize of the Republic of Moldova in the field of literature, art and architecture (2002).
Dr. Elisabeta Negrău – member of the component Project I
Dr. Elisabeta Negrău is a scientific researcher at the Art History Institute "G. Oprescu "in Bucharest, the Department of Visual Arts and Architecture - Medieval Period. She graduated from the National Art University of Bucharest, Department of History and Art Theory and is a doctor of science in the same institution (2012), with the thesis: Aulic Dimensions in the Post-Byzantine Art: The Case of Wallachia (16th-17th centuries). Doctoral scholar of CNCSIS between 2007-2009 and project director CNCSIS TD (2007-2009). Author of more than 30 studies on Wallachian art (14th century - first part of the 19th century), among which: The repertoire of Brâncoveanu mural paintings: Vâlcea County (Bucharest, 2008, co-author), Cult of the Southeast European Sovereign Wallachia: An Art Perspective (Iaşi, 2011), Oltenia Monasteries: Art and Spirituality (Bucharest, 2014, coauthor), Saint Pafnja - Pârvu Painter: Tradition and Modernity in the Brancovean Art (Bucharest, 2017) XVII-XIX centuries (Bucharest, 2017, co-author).