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Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace
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 .
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]
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