The collection of Islamic art at the National Museum of Art in Romania is the most significant of its kind in Romania, comprising approximately 1,400 pieces dating from the 7th to the 20th century.

Curators of the exhibition: Liliana Chiriac and Ilinca Damian

The museum brings centre stage a core selection of paintings by Theodor Pallady. Together with over 800 prints and drawings from the artist’s Parisian years, these are part of the Serafina and Gheorghe Răut collection, donated to the Romanian state at the end of the 1960s. The collection also comprises French, Dutch, English and Spanish paintings, European furniture and sculpture and a host of various objets d’art which speak eloquently about the manner in which Romanian inter-war intellectuals tried to emulate general trends.