House-of-Culture mosaic, Hîrbovăț
A mosaic panel on the side wall of the House of Culture in Hîrbovăț, a large village in the Anenii Noi district of central Moldova, first documented in 1764 and, by tradition, founded by 120 families of Romanian peasants. The building is a Soviet house of culture in neoclassical dress, with a pediment and a central columned portico; the mosaic fills the whole blind end wall. The composition shows two women in Moldovan folk costume in a harvest scene — one standing to pick fruit from a tree, the other seated with a basket and a cluster of grapes — against hills of vineyards and a river valley. The palette of blues, ochre and white, with red accents on the diamond-patterned skirt, is warm and luminous. The artist and year are undocumented, as with most of Moldova's rural mosaics; the work survives in situ and was photographed in June 2025.
- Track
- Central Moldova (Codru)
- Neighborhood
- Hîrbovăț, r. Anenii Noi
- Building
- Casa de Cultură, Hîrbovăț, r. Anenii Noi