Traian Trestioreanu (June 9, 1919, Ploieşti–August 28, 1972,

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painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, sketcher and muralist. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in

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, having among his teachers Camil Ressu. In 1970, Trestioreanu restored the interior paintings in the monastery of Coşuna, in Bucovăţ, revealing original

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

s from the 16th century. Bucovăţ
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Romanian muralists People from Ploiești 1919 births 1972 deaths 20th-century Romanian painters {{Romania-painter-stub