ANALIZA IMAGINILOR ISTORICE ALE ORAŞELOR ROMÂNIEI DE AZI
ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL IMAGES OF CITIES FROM TODAY’S ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: From the emergence of the woodcut and afterwards of the copper plate engraving, at the end of the 15th century, until the spreading of the photographic reproduction, the graphic art, mainly the print art, was a medium of cultural exchanges, without precedent in history. It was, from its beginning, the cardinal popular art, which reached all the strata of population. Town representations help us to imagine the experience of urban life at different stages in history. From the end of the 15th century, towns from present Romania are recorded in drawings, etchings, paintings and prints. All of them are very useful sources for social and cultural history. The inclusion of the historical images repertoire analysis of cities from today’s Romania in the scientific circuit, by publication could become a starting point for documentation activity of the researchers in urban history of the Romanian space.

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