Kretzulescu Church
Brick Brâncovenesc church from the early eighteenth century, with original Apocalypse porch frescoes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kretzulescu Church in Bucharest is about the paintings on its walls and the people who made them, from the boyar Iordache Crețulescu and his wife Safta, a daughter of Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu, to Gheorghe Tattarescu, the star church painter of the nineteenth century. It asks whose work you are really looking at inside, and what a restoration in the nineteen thirties decided to keep. Start in the open porch, under the Apocalypse frescoes.
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