The stone palace in Herești (Giurgiu county). Sculptor Elias Nicolai from Sibiu author of the portals' decoration
The stone palace in Herești (Giurgiu county). Sculptor Elias Nicolai from Sibiu author of the portals' decoration

Summary/Abstract: The stone palace in Hereşti, erected around 1641-1644 by the great boyars Udrişte and Cazan Năsturel is considered to be the only monument of Romanian civic architecture from the era to have been built, both on the inside and on the outside, of finished hewn stone. The originality of the building is also given by the use of space and architectural forms. The decoration on the pediments of the two portals as well as the coat of arms of the great scholar Udrişte Năsturel, which is lost today, but which once completed the pediment ornamentation on the western facade of the building, find stylistic analogies in the works of the famous sculptor from Sibiu, Elias Nicolai, the same artist that made the tombstones of Voivode Matei Basarab (1632-1654) and his family.

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