FEMININITY AND ADORNMENT - IA ROMANIAN
Worn with pride both by simple peasants from the Romanian village and by the queens and princesses of Romania, it is an element of popular wear that treasures values specific to each ethnographic area, emphasizes female creativity.
The popular women's costume consisting of a shirt or tie, fota, borangic scarf or richly decorated scarf, beautified with ornaments characteristic of the age, sober when it was worn at work but precious and elegant when it was worn on holidays or on the occasion of important ceremonies in people's lives, each geographical area has special characteristics.
The central piece of the costume, ia, also entered universal art through the work of the great French painter Henri Matisse, entitledThe Romanian blouse,the artist being inspired by the beauty of the Romanian countryside.
The queens and princesses of Romania were attracted by the Romanian folk costume which they adopted and wore with pride on special occasions, promoting it as an emblem of Romanian identity.
The popular female costume is also found in religious art from Romania, in iconographic representations from churches and icons. An example in this sense is the Holy Great Martyr Filofteia from the Curtea de Argeş Monastery, the protector of women, young people, and children, who is dressed in the folk costume.
At the invitation of the ICR - Academy of Romania and the Embassy of Romania, in the Italian Republic the National Museum of the Village "Dimitrie Gusti" organizes under the signUniversal Day of IaandCentenary of the Great Unionthe exhibitionFemininity and adornment – Romanian style.
The exhibition was toured in several cities in Italy - Venice, Milan, Turin, as well as in other European countries and was registered as a brand with great public success.
The exhibition, which includes festive costumes from different areas of Romania, ii, but also fabrics, ceramics, icons, wooden objects, photographs, was opened from June 24 to July 24, 2018 at the Art Gallery of the Academy of Romania in Rome ( Viale della Belle Arti 110).
The event was completed with demonstrations by contemporary folk craftsmen.
Information:
"Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum: 28-30 Kiseleff Road, Bucharest, 011347 Tel/fax: 021 317 9103;
E-mail: contact@muzeul-satului.ro; relatii.publice@muzeul-satului.ro
Accademia di Romania: Piazza José de San Martin, 1 – 00197 Rome
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