Building-facade mosaic, Ungheni

A Soviet-era figurative panel covers the end wall of a two-storey building at str. Națională 20 in the town of Ungheni — recorded in the “Mosaics of Moldova” inventory as the façade of the police commissariat. The vivid composition shows three female figures against rainbow arcs: one in a white robe unfurls a brightly striped band from a round medallion, like an unrolling carpet, beside a kneeling figure and a figure shading her eyes; above them a flowering tree with red blossoms and grape clusters. The bodies are set in white smalt against saturated fields of red, yellow, blue and green — an allegory of plenty in which the carpet motif nods to the town's signature craft. The author and year are not documented.

Track

Central Moldova (Codru)

Neighborhood

Ungheni

Building

str. Națională 20, Ungheni (comisariatul de poliție)

Photos: photobankmd (CC0)