Romantic poets

The mystery shrouding the fate of the body of Alegra Byron, daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clermont, who died in an Italian convent at the age of five, is back in the news after the revelation of the monastery’s archive, as presented at the 48th International Byronic Conference in Me

The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum (nationalgallery.gr) is hosting an exhibition of works by Greek artist Rena Papaspyrou (b. 1938), titled "Surfaces, User Instructions* The Dialectic Between Everyday Life and Matter" until June 16.

The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum (nationalgallery.gr) presents the urban experience of 1950s-70s Greece through paintings, sculptures, installations and film clips. Viewing the city as a source of both identity and conflict, through the work of 77 artists, the exhibition captures the rapidly changing post-war society of Athens.

The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum (nationalgallery.gr) presents the urban experience of 1950s-70s Greece through paintings, sculptures, installations and film clips. Viewing the city as a source of both identity and conflict, through the work of 77 artists, the exhibition captures the rapidly changing post-war society of Athens.

With the exhibition "Urbanography," curated by Syrago Tsiara, the National Gallery explores the urban transformation of Athens from 1950 to 1970 via the works of 78 artists. "It came out of a desire to seek out images of life in Athens, and thus to become part of a city where I was not raised in," said Tsiara, director of the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum.

Literary historian and critic Paul Cornea passed away on Sunday at 94 years old, the National Museum of the Romanian Literature (MNLR) announces in a release sent to AGERPRES.

Romanians in Bulgaria and worldwide celebrated their day of national culture on Monday.

January 15 is the birth date of Mihai Eminescu, a poet and novelist who contributed to national revival in the age of Romanticism.

President Klaus Iohannis says in a Facebook post that the most appropriate tribute to the national poet Mihai Eminescu on the latter's 165 years of birth anniversary would be for us to read a line of the great Romanian's poetry, prose or newspaper articles.

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The premiere of a play based on the life of the German poet Goethe has been canceled over controversy prompted by an attempt to remove lines deemed 'foul and erotic'

Singer Mirabela Dauer said in an interview with AGERPRES that Bucharest has lost some of the romantic charm of its past, and the only romantic location still in place in Bucharest is the Old City Centre. "Bucharest is gorgeous, but it's no longer as romantic as it used to be," she said.