National Museum of Art
Former royal palace holding Romanian and European art, from icons to El Greco and Old Masters.
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This guide to the National Museum of Art in Bucharest starts in front of El Greco's The Adoration of the Shepherds, a canvas over three and a half metres tall. It follows the Romanian kings who collected it, from Carol the First and his friend Felix Bamberg onward, and the year 1948, when several El Grecos vanished from the royal residences. Best heard standing right in front of the painting.
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