Bucharest National University of Arts

The National University of Arts is a higher education institution in Bucharest.

The National School of Fine Arts was founded on 5 October 1864 through a decree issued by the ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza and as a result of the efforts pursued by the painters Theodor Aman and Gheorghe Tattarescu.

This fine arts institution from Bucharest has had a number of official denominations over time: The School had various departments: painting, sculpture, engraving, architecture, line drawing, aesthetics, history and perspectival drawing.

In 1909, Spiru Haret approved the Regulation for the interior administration of the School of Arts, a document that established the admission examination and confirmed the break with the School of Architecture through the approval of a method of selection by the end of the 1st year of studies.

In 1942 the Academy changed its name again into the Higher School of Arts in Bucharest.