page_title: Gheorghe Tattarescu
section_title: Political activities
hierarchical_section_title: Gheorghe Tattarescu / Biography / Political activities
caption_attribution_description: Gheorghe Tattarescu - Nicolae Bălcescu (1851)
context_page_description: Gheorghe Tattarescu was a Moldavian, later Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting.
context_section_description: Tattarescu was a participant in the 1848 Revolution in Wallachia. After the revolution, he painted portraits of Romanian revolutionaries in exile such as Gheorghe Magheru, Ştefan Golescu, and, in 1851, that of Nicolae Bălcescu (in three almost identical versions). Romantic nationalist ideals were the inspiration for his allegorical compositions with revolutionary themes in Romania's rebirth (1849), the patriotic Principalities' Unification (1857) and February 11 - The Modern Romania (1866).
caption: Portrait of Nicolae Bălcescu (1851)
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