Puține urme istorice, stilistice și tehnice ale unor prezențe ale artiștilor români în secolul al XIX-lea în Italia
Few historic, stylistic and technical guide marks of some romanian artists’s presence in the XIXth century in Italy

Summary/Abstract: The evolution of the Romanian art in XIXth century determined and it is still raising many questions. Reporting the fine art to the general effort of modernizing the Romanian society, the emergence and the evolution of the new artistic techniques, the awareness of the status of independent artist and the configuration of the artist-citizen profile as well as the sinuosity of the effort to synchronize with the Occidental art, all represent as many lines of investigation as the results of which novelty might be at least anticipated. In accordance with the language characteristics and the historic, social and cultural reality of that time, the study of the beginnings, the evolution, the moments of glory and even of fall of the painting, sculpture, lithography, engraving and etching in the three Romanian Principalities must follow on the compared analysis of those interferential paragraphs constituted by the synchronizing and obvious correspondence with the great conquests, lines and certitudes of the European art – Italian, French, German or Austrian. Within the artistic atmosphere of Rome, where he arrived in 1808, Gheorghe Asachi (1788-1866) understood the efficiency of the lithography as an artistic technique with valances of cheap multiplication of the image and appreciated the importance of working “in the nature”, just like we can see from his notes written on the drawings made in Italy during this period or later. Among the first generation of Romanian artists, students at the Mihaileana Academy, Gheorghe Lemeni (1815-1848) and Gheorghe Năstăseanu (cca. 1812- 1964), sent to Rome with a scholarship, focused their attention also on practising painting and lithography. Alexandru Asachi (1820-1875 or 1876) certainly was in Italy before 1845, the year during which a request to extent the passport signed by his father is kept in the State Archive in Iaşi. In Italy, it is possible that he might have met also Gheorghe Lemeni, who was in Rome since 1842.

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