{"id":232863,"date":"2019-04-03T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=232863"},"modified":"2019-04-03T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:25:12","slug":"frances-louvre-to-host-first-romanian-art-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/frances-louvre-to-host-first-romanian-art-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Louvre to Host First Romanian Art Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A collection of Romanian Byzantine embroidery dating from the 15th to the 17th Century will be exhibited for the first time ever at the Louvre Museum in Paris from April 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Louvre Museum in Paris will host a Romanian art exhibition that brings together 27 pieces of Byzantine embroidery and some religious tapestries from the mid-15th to the mid-17th Century, it was announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The pieces come from the Romanian National Art Museum and the History Museum in Bucharest, as well as several historic monasteries in eastern Romania, said a press release from the Romanian National Art Museum.<\/p>\n

The exhibit is part of the Romania-France Cultural Season, a joint programme of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its French counterpart.<\/p>\n

The main piece is a war flag from the region of Moldova portraying Saint George, which was embroidered in 1504.<\/p>\n

The piece was offered as a gift by Stephen II of Moldova, also known as Stephen the Great, who was the Prince of Moldova during 1457-1504, to a monastery on Mount Athos.<\/p>\n

The flag was recovered during World War I by the French Army and given back to Romania in a ceremony held at Sorbonne University in 1917.<\/p>\n

The exhibition also features 26 embroidered orthodox liturgic veils, Byzantine decorative tapestry, pieces of clothing and embroidered portraits that used to cover the graves of kings and high-ranking nobility.<\/p>\n

All the pieces were made in Walachia and Moldova between 1435 and the end of the 17th Century.<\/p>\n

Byzantine embroidery is a very laborious technique that uses gold and silver thread, pearls and gemstones as well as silk and velvet. Most pieces were used by high-level nobility, princes and senior Orthodox clerics as ceremonial decoration or funerary attire.<\/p>\n

Some of the pieces that are to be exhibited at the Louvre haven\u2019t been shown abroad since 1927.<\/p>\n

The exhibition will open on April 17 and will run until July 29.<\/p>\n