page_title: Statue of Trajan and the She-wolf
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Statue of Trajan and the She-wolf / Reception
caption_attribution_description: Română: Vandalism în centrul Capitalei: Victimă a căzut celebra lupoaică a lui Traian din fața Muzeului de Istorie
context_page_description: The Statue of Trajan and the She-wolf is a statue by Vasile Gorduz located on the steps of the National Museum of Romanian History on Calea Victoriei in central Bucharest. It depicts a nude Trajan holding in his arms the Capitoline Wolf, which is doubled as the Dacian Draco, the war standard of the Dacians.
context_section_description: The director the National Museum of Romanian History, Ernest Oberländer Târnoveanu, said he thinks it shouldn't have been placed there due to its "doubtful artistic quality", and appreciated that it won't stay there for a long time. On the other hand, Mihai Oroveanu, the director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art thought it's a "beautiful" and "very modern" work, while  Răzvan Theodorescu called it a "symbol of our nation".
  The statue was not well received by Bucharesters, who met it with derision, due to the nudity and the awkwardness of Trajan's statue, being described as "a monument to Romania's stray dogs", with commentators wondering why "the dog is levitating", and why the animal wears a scarf "while the emperor isn't even wearing any underwear". 
  According to Deutsche Welle, the Bucharest public met it with a "stubborn conservatism which opposes any attempt towards urban renewal", still displaying the stupefaction of the first visitors to modernist exhibitions.
caption: The statue, after being vandalized in September 2017
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