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Conferences, symposiums, colloquia, book launches
2025
Researches on Romanian medieval and premodern art, 21th ed., G. Oprescu Institute of Art History & The National Museum of Art of Romania, 25-26 septembrie 2025
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New book releases
Icons In-Between: Eastern Christian Art from Border Regions. Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece, exhibition catalogue, ed.: Liliya Berezhnaya, Recklinghausen Icon Museum, 2025, 134 p.
Geopolitics to Geocriticism: A Study of TV Series in Türkiye, Serbia, Romania and Beyond, editor: Deniz Bayrakdar, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024, 369 p.
Other news
Due to the partnership between G. Oprescu Institute of Art History and the National Institute of Heritage, several old issues of the journal Studii și cercetări de istoria artei, series Artă plastică and Teatru, Muzică, Cinematografie (link), as well as issues of Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art (link), were digitised and made available online. The journal issues are hosted on the "Digital Library of Cultural Publications" (link).
Cristina Cojocaru and Elisabeta Negrău, members of the Department for Medieval Art and Architecture at the G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, participated in the International Conference Art Readings – Old Art Module, which took place from April 3 to 5, 2025, at the Institute of Art History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. This conference represents the most important annual international event in the Balkan region dedicated to medieval to early modern art.
The theme of this year’s conference was Art and Archives and the presentations have addressed, in particular but not exclusively, the following topics: recent research on art based on archival data or broader studies and theoretical issues stemming from archival information; exploration of the history of collections—institutional and private—that preserve art objects or documents related to various artifacts; studies concerning the development of the history of visual arts as an academic discipline—institutions, individuals, politics, normative frameworks, and regional specificities; and scientific issues related to the digitization of artifacts.
During the conference, dr. Cristina Cojocaru presented a paper titled Reconstructing the Iconographic Program of the Văcărești Monastery through Photographic Archives, while dr. Elisabeta Negrău delivered a presentation titled A Source for Post-Byzantine Art History: Letters to the Patriarch and Tsar of Russia Regarding Church Paintings (1628–1655).
Wednesday meetings
Beginning with September 2011, the G. Oprescu Institute hosts monthly meetings where researchers share with their colleagues various novelties in the field of fine arts, theatre, music or film history.
IAH kinema
The project "IAH kinema" started in February 2017. Films of documentary and artistic value, less known to the Romanian public, will be projected occasionally for researchers interested in the history of cinema.
Venue: G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, 196 Calea Victoriei.
