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This remarkable portrait of Mihai Eminescu, created by artist Alexandru Gușanov, is based on one of the four known photographs of the poet. The photograph that inspired this portrait was taken in 1869 in Wenceslas Square, Prague, when Eminescu was only 19 years old. The oval composition and harmonious color palette highlight the prominent personality and charisma of the young poet, capturing an expression that conveys both melancholy and intellectual depth.
Alexandru Gușanov (1929-2005), a Moldovan painter of Ukrainian origin, distinguished himself through his extensive work, comprising approximately 5,000 pieces - portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings. Settled in Moldova since 1945, Gușanov graduated from the Republican Art School "I.E. Repin" in Chișinău in 1952. His works were showcased in numerous national and international exhibitions and were highly appreciated in countries such as France, Hungary, Russia, and Yugoslavia. The artist dedicated a significant part of his career to creating portraits of historical and cultural figures, including Dimitrie Cantemir, Mihail Kogălniceanu, and Alexei Mateevici, which are part of the National Museum of History of Moldova's collection.

The subject of the portrait, Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889), is the most significant poet in Romanian literature, whose works reflect profound thought, sensitivity toward nature, and national identity. At the age of 19, when the photograph that inspired this portrait was taken, Eminescu was in the midst of his intellectual formation, preparing to become the iconic voice of Romanian culture. Among his most famous works is the poem Luceafărul (The Morning Star), a masterpiece of universal literature.

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„Mine flowers from Maramureș, Romania”

September 19th – October 25th, 2013

On September 19th, 2013, on the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the National Museum of History of Moldova in collaboration with the Mineralogy Museum Baia Mare opened the exhibition „Mine flowers from Maramureș, Romania.

The exhibition presented for the first time to Republic of Moldova's public 120 splendid mineral samples from the collection of the Mineralogy Museum Baia Mare, the only regional museum with this profile in Romania and the holder of one of the biggest regional collections of minerals or „mine flowers" from Europe.

The mine flower represent a mineral sample cropped from underground, monomineral or formed of more minerals, having special esthetic qualities due to mineral/minerals crystals growing together, color, forms, exceptional sizes of some component crystals.

The mineral's beauty and size raised human interest from oldest times as the samples were extracted, brought to surface and preserved in private collections or exhibited in museums.

The big number of mineral sample found around Baia Mare town offers the region the right to be called the richest holder of such beauties in entire Romania, being well known internationally as well.

The exhibited minerals are of unique and fascinating beauty due to their forms, brightness or their opaque surface, spines and soft surfaces, unique color or rainbow showing up from within. These include varieties of quartz, calcite, rhodochrosite, marcasite, gypsum etc.

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Portrait of Mihai Eminescu by Alexandru Gușanov

„Mine flowers from Maramureș, Romania”

September 19th – October 25th, 2013

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