Monument or statue · 1880

Statue of Ion Heliade-Rădulescu

The marble statue of Ion Heliade-Rădulescu was made by the sculptor Ettore Ferrari, commissioned by the City Hall, and unveiled on 21 November 1880, nine years after the death of the founder of the Romanian Academy. Placed in Piața Universității, then called Piața Academiei, it shows him in the pose of an orator, with his head slightly bowed and a book in his left hand. Alexandru Vlahuță dedicated a poem to it, and Bucharest wit responded with an epigram. In 2010 the statue was temporarily moved to Izvor Park because of the construction of an underground car park, and it returned to its place on 5 May 2012.

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Text source: ro.wikipedia.org · summary based on the source

Old photographs

Statuia lui Mihai Viteazul
1877 · Franz Duschek · Public domain
Monument of Michel le Brave
1897 · Public domain
Statue of Mihai Viteazul in University Square in Bucharest
1900 · Public domain
Theater Neubau, Boulevard Balescu
1971 · Willy Pragher · CC BY 4.0
Universität – Monument to Ion Heliade Rădulescu, University of Bucharest
1974 · Willy Pragher · CC BY 4.0
Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta, Universitatea Bucuresti (Bukaresti Egyetem), előtérben…
1986 · Fortepan / Urbán Tamás · CC BY-SA 3.0

On the old maps

The place appears on 45 maps and images, from 1790 to today:

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