From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace
Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace
Banffy Palace The floor area of the palace is 66×48 m, its inner yard
is 26×26 m. The wings on the sides include one row of
rooms while the front and back wing includes two rows.
The yard is surrounded by a portico at the second-floor
level.
The facade is decorated with statues of Mars, Miner-
va, Apollo, Diana, Hercules, Perseus, and the coat of arms
of the Bánffy family with gryphons, without crown. In
the median risalit there is a gate, above this is a loggia
with seven pillars.[1]
Exterior view
Art museum
General information
Architectural style Baroque
Town or city Cluj-Napoca
Country Romania
Construction 1774
started
Completed 1786
Design and construction
Client György Bánffy, governor of
Transylvania
Architect Johann Eberhard Blaumann
Bánffy family coat of arms
Bánffy Castle is a baroque building of the 18th century
in Cluj-Napoca, designed by the German architect Johann Since 1951, the palace has housed the National Museum
Eberhard Blaumann.[1] Built between 1774 and 1775 it is of Art Cluj-Napoca, which includes, in its Virgil Cioflec
considered the most representative for the baroque style collection the works of arts of many important Romanian
of Transylvania. The first owner of the palace was the artists, such as Nicolae Grigorescu, Ştefan Luchian, Dim-
Hungarian duke György Bánffy (1746–1822), the governor itrie Paciurea, Theodor Pallady, Camil Ressu and others.
of Transylvania. The museum also includes works by noted Hungarian
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Caroline artists József Koszta, Károly Lotz, László Mednyánszky,
Augusta of Bavaria were hosted in the palace during their Mihály Munkácsy, and István Réti. The international col-
visit in Kolozsvár, between 18 and 27 August 1817. This lection features paintings of major European artists like
was the first occasion when a ruler from the Habsburg Luca Giordano, Carlo Dolci, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin,
family visited the city.[2] Franz Joseph I of Austria was al- Félix Ziem, Ivan Aivazovsky, Herri met de Bles, and Franz
so the guest of the palace between 2-4. August 1852 and Defregger, as well as sculptures of Claude Michel,
22–24 September 1887.[3] Antoine-Louis Barye and Ernst Barlach. The graphics col-
In February 1951 the council of the city decided to lection includes works of great European printmakers of
empty the palace to establish an Art Museum there; the the 16th-20th centuries. Among those, the museum hosts
works were finished in the summer of 1954.[4] The muse- the works of Salvator Rosa, Giovanni BaTtista Piranesi,
um was opened in the restored palace on 30. December Honoré Daumier, Théodore Géricault, Edgar Degas and
1965.[5] The cinema occupying the inner yard of the Käthe Kollwitz.[7]
palace was demolished in 1974.[6]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace
See also [3] Gaal György (2001). "Kolozsvár kétezer esztendeje
dátumokban". In Dáné Tibor Kálmán et. al. (in
Museums in Cluj : Hungarian). Kolozsvár 1000 éve (A 2000. október
• Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania 13–14-én rendezett konferencia előadásai). Kolozsvár:
• National Museum of Transylvanian History Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Magyar Közművelődési
• Water Museum Egyesület. pp. 332. ISBN 9738231140.
• Pharmacy Museum http://mek.oszk.hu/02600/02659/. Retrieved
• Babeş-Bolyai University Museums: 2010-01-23.
• Babeş-Bolyai University Museum [4] Gaal György (2001). "Kolozsvár kétezer esztendeje
• "Emil Racoviţă" Museum of Speleology dátumokban". In Dáné Tibor Kálmán et. al. (in
• Museum of Mineralogy Hungarian). Kolozsvár 1000 éve (A 2000. október
• Botanical Museum 13–14-én rendezett konferencia előadásai). Kolozsvár:
• Museum of Paleontology and Stratigraphy Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Magyar Közművelődési
• Zoological Museum Egyesület. pp. 358. ISBN 9738231140.
http://mek.oszk.hu/02600/02659/. Retrieved
External links [5]
2010-01-23.
Gaal György (2001). "Kolozsvár kétezer esztendeje
• Official website dátumokban". In Dáné Tibor Kálmán et. al. (in
Hungarian). Kolozsvár 1000 éve (A 2000. október
Notes 13–14-én rendezett konferencia előadásai). Kolozsvár:
Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Magyar Közművelődési
[1] ^ Balogh Ferenc (2001). "A kolozsvári Fő tér újkori Egyesület. pp. 362. ISBN 9738231140.
arculatának kialakulása". In Dáné Tibor Kálmán et. http://mek.oszk.hu/02600/02659/. Retrieved
al. (in Hungarian). Kolozsvár 1000 éve (A 2000. október 2010-01-23.
13–14-én rendezett konferencia előadásai). Kolozsvár: [6] Gaal György (2001). "Kolozsvár kétezer esztendeje
Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Magyar Közművelődési dátumokban". In Dáné Tibor Kálmán et. al. (in
Egyesület. pp. 224. ISBN 9738231140. Hungarian). Kolozsvár 1000 éve (A 2000. október
http://mek.oszk.hu/02600/02659/. Retrieved 13–14-én rendezett konferencia előadásai). Kolozsvár:
2010-01-23. Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Magyar Közművelődési
[2] Gaal György (2001). "Kolozsvár kétezer esztendeje Egyesület. pp. 364. ISBN 9738231140.
dátumokban". In Dáné Tibor Kálmán et. al. (in http://mek.oszk.hu/02600/02659/. Retrieved
Hungarian). Kolozsvár 1000 éve (A 2000. október 2010-01-23.
13–14-én rendezett konferencia előadásai). Kolozsvár: [7] Official website of the museum
Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Magyar Közművelődési
Egyesület. pp. 327. ISBN 9738231140. Coordinates: 46°46′14″N 23°35′26″E / 46.77069°N
http://mek.oszk.hu/02600/02659/. Retrieved 23.59044°E / 46.77069; 23.59044
2010-01-23.
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