‘Titan with a sun-disc’ mosaic, str. Nicolae Iorga 30, Bălți

‘Titan with a sun-disc’ mosaic, str. Nicolae Iorga 30, Bălți ‘Titan with a sun-disc’ mosaic, str. Nicolae Iorga 30, Bălți ‘Titan with a sun-disc’ mosaic, str. Nicolae Iorga 30, Bălți ‘Titan with a sun-disc’ mosaic, str. Nicolae Iorga 30, Bălți
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A monumental gable mosaic on a Soviet residential block at str. Nicolae Iorga 30, in the central part of Bălți — Moldova's second-largest city and the country's „northern capital”. The panel, one of the most striking in the cluster, shows a bearded titan of the Atlas/Prometheus type straining beneath a large yellow sun-disc. The figure is worked in fine, almost pointillist black-and-white smalt and stands out against a grey-blue ground, while the yellow disc concentrates all the colour of the composition — an allegory of effort and light. The block belongs to an unusually dense cluster of late-Soviet facade mosaics on the residential blocks along str. Nicolae Iorga and neighbouring streets in central Bălți. The author and year are not documented. The work survives in situ and was photographed during photobankmd's CC0 documentation campaign.

Neighborhood
Bălți
Building
Bloc locativ, str. Nicolae Iorga 30, Bălți

Photos: photobankmd (CC0)