Architectural Features during Royal Times: King Carol I and Queen Elizabeth (Carmen Sylva)
Architectural Features during Royal Times: King Carol I and Queen Elizabeth (Carmen Sylva)

Author(s): LUCA MATEI STOIAN
Subject(s): Cultural history, Architecture, Political history, Social history, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Carmen Sylva; Queen Elisabeth of Romania; King Carol I; Romanian Crown; national identity; architecture; cultural modernization; European influence; political leadership; nation-building;
Summary/Abstract: In the context of the prosperous economic environment and the general programs aimed at modernizing the country, the Crown constituted for Romania one of the factors that brought the country to the core of European civilization. The work of foreign architects (French, German, Austrian, Italian) along with Romanian ones built remarkable monuments - during the last decades of the 19th century was also continued through the residences of the Romanian aristocracy, in the first decades of the 20th century, by representations of leaders of the Romanian school of architecture who also created a style specific to Romanian architecture and cultural identity. The name of Queen Elisabeta and King Carol I will always be associated with the consciousness of the fulfilled duty. They ruled the country through the hardest and greatest moments of its history. The Crown placed Romania’s interest above their blood connection and their country of origin. The fidelity with which the Romanians gathered around the Crown was the foundation of the political and diplomatic struggle of the statesmen for the recognition of the union of the historical provinces and the consolidation of the Romanian influence in Europe.

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