« Seara conversat cu Bamberg ». Carol I di Romania, Felix Bamberg e l’amore per l’arte italiana
„In the Evening I Talked to Bamberg”. Carol I of Romania, Felix Bamberg and Lore for Italian Art

Summary/Abstract: This essay retraces Felix Bamberg’s image and his relations with Karl Eitel of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who ascended to the throne of the United Principalities of Romania in 1866, in order to deepen lesser known aspects of what nowadays is an important collection of the Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României in Bucharest. Through this collection we are going to study an aspect of the development of the Romanian culture and Italian art awareness in the latter half of the XIX century. As a refined connaisseur and skillful buyer and dealer of art – and of culture tout court – Felix Bamberg (Unruhstadt 1820 – Saint-Gratien, Parigi, 1893), diplomat and historian, was as crucially important then as completely forgotten now. The first-hand knowledge of remarkable works of art by Italian Renaissance and Baroque artists within this collection, along with their polymorphic and polyvalent meanings, certainly contributed to the awareness of the Western cultural and artistic world, going beyond and completing the knowledge of the Byzantin and Oriental classic religious art.

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