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The Palace of Brukenthal

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The Palace of Brukenthal

The Brukenthal palate is one of the buildings of style the most important baroque of Romania.

Built in Sibiu in several successive stages, between 1778 and 1788, it was the permanent residence of the baron Samuel von Brukenthal, governor of the principality of Transylvania.

Collector of impassioned art, this one transformed are living its residence in true museum.

In are calendar to publish in 1790, the editor local Martin Hochmeister mentioned the art gallery of the Brukenthal palate, by specifying that it contained 800 fabrics of Masters, presented in 13 rooms.

Opened with the public since 1817, the Brukenthal museum, consisted of an art gallery and a library, is the oldest museum of Romania and one of the first of Europe.

Large living rooms one preserved their decoration baroque of origin: chimney of style rococo and neo-classic, wall coverings of red silk or out of wallpaper of Eastern style, invaluable candelabra of Murano, the traditional furniture of the XVIII ème century.

The collection of European painting presents, through the 1200 fabrics of Masters, the principal ones running of the XV ème and XVIII ème century.

Flemish such as: (Marinus van Reymerswaele and Frans Flowered van Vriendt, Peter van Rubens or Anton van Dyck),

German and Austrian (Lucas Cranach the old one, Schwab von Wertinger, portraitist such as Christoph Pauliz, former pupil of Rembrandt, Jan Kupetzky and Martin Meytens, of the landscape designers, painters of the religious and mythological scenes).

The school Italian, slightly less less represented (approximately 200 fabrics), joins together major works of Alessandro Botticelli, Tullio Lombardo, Tiziano Vecellio, Paris Bardone, Sebastiano Ricci, Alessandro Magnasco.

The collection of indigenous painting joins together portraits dating from the XVI ème and of the XVIII ème century those represents a great historical and documentary value, true famous gallery of the figures of the nobility.

The portrait Lucas Hirscher carried out by Grégorius, originating in Brasov, is regarded as one of the first Rumanian laic portrait.

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