Abstract
The current essay presents information about medieval stone sculpture in the Romanian Lands. The transfer of foreign cultural influences to the Romanian lands was possible due to the geographic positioning of the states which inspired the Romanian stone carvings. Wallachia, being in the vicinity of the Byzantine Empire, and later the Ottoman Empire, has taken over certain Oriental and Balkan influences. The glorious past of Rome is still present in the Byzantine Empire and the ruler (voivode) and heraldic titles played an especially important role, influencing the dynasties in the Romanian Lands. Western architectural influences penetrated in medieval Moldavia, through the Western Slavs (Silesia, Bohemia and most of all Poland). These Western influences also penetrated to the South of the Carpathian Mountains, in the Transylvanian Saxon regions of the 13th and 14th centuries, in the towns bellow the mountain.