ARCUB AGENDA 2010

No book on Bucharest ever published so far contains so many high quality photocopies of the most representative, rare and interesting images related to the city history.

The 400 engravings, water color paintings and old photographs belonging to the collections of several museums, of the National Archives and the Woodcut Cabinet of the Romanian Academy shall take the reader on a journey starting in the time of Vlad the Impaler and reaching contemporary times.
Images are completed with papers signed by famous historians: Constantin Rezachevici, Adrian Silvan Ionescu, Emanuel Bădescu şi Cezara Mucenic.
 
“Initially, this book was designed as an album of images (photographs, engravings, etc.), meant to commemorate the anniversary of 550 years since the first documentary mention of our city. An illustrated history of the city of Bucharest. Yet, it is if not impossible, at least difficult, to describe in images a history of five centuries and a half of the Capital, for the simple reason that there are no drawings, paintings or engravings earlier than the 18th century.
That is why, in order to compensate the absence of images and in order to enhance the educative value of this book, we sought for help to the mediaevalist Constantin Rezachevici, author of an excellent book on the old history of Bucharest, detailed, interesting, rich in less known or until then unknown information. Furthermore, three other notorious historians contributed with exceptional materials in order to complete this book. Thus, Mr. Adrian Silvan Ionescu wrote a well documented paper on the history of costume and fashion in Bucharest, from the 19th century to present times; Mrs. Cezara Mucenic, art historian, provided us with a history of the architecture of Bucharest, starting with the end of the Phanariotes period until 1945, and Mr. Emanuel Bădescu – a very interesting text on the leisure venues (gardens, open air restaurants, etc.) where the Bucharesters of yesteryear would stroll.
You will discover in this book a selection of the most interesting and valuable images related to the history of Bucharest, that we could find in public and private collections and archives.” (Radu Oltean)
 
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