Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace

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Banffy Palace

Exterior view
Building
Architectural style	Baroque
Town	Cluj-Napoca
Country	Romania
Client	György Bánffy, governor of Transylvania
Construction
Started	1774
Completed	1906
Demolished	1785
Design team
Architect	Johann Eberhard Blaumann

Bánffy Castle is a baroque building of the 18th century in Cluj-Napoca, designed by the German architect Johann Eberhard Blaumann. Built between 1774 and 1775 it is considered the most representative for the baroque style of Transylvania.

[edit] Art museum

Since 1951, the palace has housed the National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca, which includes, in its Virgil Cioflec collection the works of arts of many important Romanian artists, such as Nicolae Grigorescu, Ştefan Luchian, Dimitrie Paciurea, Theodor Pallady, Camil Ressu and other. The international collection features paintings of major European artists like Luca Giordano, Carlo Dolci, Jean Hippolyte Flandrin, Felix Ziem, Ivan Aivazovsky, Herri met de Bles, Károly Lotz, Mihály Munkácsy, Franz Defregger, László Mednyánszky, József Koszta and István Réti, as well as sculptures of Claude Michel, Antoine-Louis Barye and Ernst Barlach. The graphic's collection includes works of great European printmakers of the 16th-20th centuries. Among those, the museum hosts works of Salvator Rosa, Giovanni Batista Piranesi, Honore Daumier, Theodore Gericault, Edgar Degas and Kaethe Kollwitz.^[1]

[edit] External links

• Official website

[edit] Notes

v • d • e Landmarks in Cluj-Napoca Worship places Bob Church • Calvaria Church • Evangelical Church • Franciscan Church • Greek-Catholic Cathedral • Orthodox Cathedral • Orthodox Church on the Hill • Piarists' Church • Reformed Synagogue • St. Michael's Church • Ss. Peter and Paul Church • Unitarian Church • Wolfsstreet Reformed Church Historical buildings Tailors' Bastion • Basta House • Hangman's House • Heltai House • Hintz House • Kőváry House • Matthias Corvinus House • Wolphard-Kakas House • Old Biasini Hotel • Convictus Nobilium • Bánffy Palace • Palace of Justice • Szeky Palace Statues and monuments Avram Iancu Statue • Capitoline Wolf Statue • Matthias Corvinus Statue • Michael the Brave Statue Sports and entertainment venues Stadionul Ion Moina • Dr. Constantin Rădulescu Stadium • Parcul Sportiv Iuliu Hatieganu Other places Botanical Garden • Central Cemetery • Central Park • Hungarian Theatre • Hungarian Opera • National Theatre • Romanian Opera

v • d • e Palaces and Castles in Romania Wallachia Cotroceni • Peleş • Pelişor • Creţulescu • Royal Palace • Patriarchate • Parliament • Victoria • Mogoşoaia • Iulia Hasdeu • Poienari • Elisabeta • CEC Moldavia Iaşi Palace of Culture Transylvania & Banat Hunyad • Săvârşin • Bánffy (Bonţida) • Bánffy (Cluj-Napoca) • Oradea • Brukenthal • Magna Curia • Bran • Făgăraş • Sighişoara • Timişoara

Coordinates: 46°46′14″N 23°35′26″E / 46.77069°N 23.59044°E / 46.77069; 23.59044