Alte două tablouri regale din colecțiile Muzeului Național al Unirii din Alba Iulia
Other Two ”Royal Paitings” from the Collections of the National Museum of Unification from Alba Iulia

Summary/Abstract: After a review on how components of the Art collection of the National Museum of Unification from Alba Iulia were previously valorized, scientifically or from the point of view of wide dissemination (for instance, also by organization of events entitled Exponatul lunii etc.(The exhibit of the month)), this research draws attention of interested audience or specialists, on 2 „royal“ portraits, purchased in 2003 by the National Museum of Union from Alba Iulia; this initiated a research, still incipient, concerning the moment and the circumstances of their execution. These two works of art, depicting King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, although are only chromolithographed reproductions, happily complete the series of 7 royal „portraits“, from Alba Iulia, rediscovered in 2013 (because during the timespan between 1947 and 1989, they were kept hidden, for fear of authorities, exactly in the warehouses of the owner institution), subsequently restored in Sibiu, at the Brukental Museum, and put on display, from 2014 onward, to be seen by the public, in the Union Hall, with considerable success. As such, although the authors refer to two art reproductions, imprinted in 1921, they support the necessity of having them restored and put on display, in continuation of the royal paintings presented to the audience in the Union Hall, mainly that they consider as author of the original works, based on which the copies were made in 1921, to be Costin Petrescu, who supposedly signed on the copies with the initials „C. P.”, the great Romanian painter of the period from after the accomplishment of the Union from the 1st December 1918, who made, as it is well known, also the mural painting of the Coronation Cathedral from Alba Iulia and that of the Atheneum from Bucharest etc.

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