19<\/p>\n
March 1827 – The religious painter and pedagogue MI\u0218U POPP was born in <\/p>\n
Bra\u0219ov. Studies at Bra\u0219ov and T\u00e2rgu Secuiesc, then at the Academy of <\/p>\n
Arts in Vienna. In 1849, he settled in Bucharest, where he painted <\/p>\n
several churches together with Constantin Lecca and Barbu St\u0103nescu (“Old<\/p>\n
Court”, “Saint George the New”, “R\u0103zvan Vod\u0103”, “Radu Vod\u0103”, chapel of <\/p>\n
Bellu cemetery). He painted the church of “Saints Voievodes” or princely<\/p>\n
church in T\u00e2rgu Jiu, the church of “Saint Nicholas” in C\u00e2mpulung and <\/p>\n
the church monastery of Fr\u0103sinei, founded by Bishop Calinic the Saint, <\/p>\n
all by himself. Back in Bra\u0219ov, he was a professor of the Orthodox <\/p>\n
Gymnasium for a while and painted several churches in the area: “The <\/p>\n
Holy Trinity” and “The Falling Asleep” in Satulung (67 scenes in <\/p>\n
tempera, many of them inspired by or copied after Western sources), the <\/p>\n
altar screens of the churches in Cernat, R\u00e2\u0219noc, \u021a\u00e2n\u021bari (Dumnbr\u0103vi\u021ba <\/p>\n
today), Araci, as well as four icons on the temple of the church in <\/p>\n
Toderi\u021ba-F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219. He also painted many portraits: Michael the Brave, <\/p>\n
Gheorghe Laz\u0103r, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Vasile Alecsandri, Mihail <\/p>\n
Kog\u0103lniceanu, C.A. Rosetti, Andrei Mure\u0219anu; paintings of Bible and <\/p>\n
mythological inspiration, landscapes. He passed away in 1892, in Bra\u0219ov <\/p>\n
too. <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
19 March 1827 – The religious painter and pedagogue MI\u0218U POPP was born in Bra\u0219ov. Studies at Bra\u0219ov and T\u00e2rgu Secuiesc, then at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. In 1849, he settled in Bucharest, where he painted several churches together with Constantin Lecca and Barbu St\u0103nescu (“Old Court”, “Saint George the New”, “R\u0103zvan Vod\u0103”,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations"],"yoast_head":"\n