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Brukenthal Museum

Brukenthal Museum

 

Housed by the Brukenthal Palace at Sibiu, it is the oldest museum in Romania (1817); it gathers together 14,000 exhibits, i.e. paintings, engravings, sculpture and decorative art works; 1,100 works belong to the Section of European Art Collections including the main schools of art between the 15th -18th centuries, with works of well-known painters among whom Tizian, Frans van Mieris the Old, the Anonymus (Flemish School, 15th c.), F. Snyders, J. Jordaens, M. van Reymerswaele, F.F. van Vriendt, H. van Balen, J. de Momper, I. Fyt, Lucas Cranach the Old etc. and engravings by M. Raimondi, A. Dürer, H. Goltzius; the Section of Romanian Art Collections exhibits paintings by Vincentius from Brasov, F. Neuhauser, A. Coulin, C. Dörschlag, Th. Aman, N. Grigorescu, I. Andreescu, St. Luchian, Gh. Petrascu, N. Tonitza, I. Iser, V. Popescu, C. Baba, Al. Ciucurencu, as well as Transylvanian drawings and engravings of the 17th - 19th centuries.