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264: 51: 378: 879: 309:) was chosen for the President's Palace, land on which in 1733–1735 there were the building of the Mining Office and, adjacent to it, the Military Cashier's Office. The construction of the Baroque Palace began from the two buildings, joined by an overstory. Based on the nature of the ornamentation, the literature assumes a close connection to Viennese 385:
The palace offers remarkable architectural effects through portals, monumentality, as well as the arrangement of windows and pilasters that mark the facade along the entire height. The initial ornamentation was greatly altered and destroyed by subsequent modifications. The ground floor is treated as
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In 1752, the Old Chamber House, so named after the function it had during the mixed German-Serbian administration of the city, was a building with a ground floor and two floors. In the back, towards the courtyard, there were several stables and warehouses as annexes. The ground floor had belonged to
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imposed a rigorously planned urban concept, with a rectangular street network in which the city's representative squares were built. Throughout the 18th century, buildings were designed and built in their perimeter. Although it was only in 1751 that the chamber administration was separated from the
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and today's Augustin Pacha Street, as if mirroring the existing building. As a result, the building was organized around two closed inner courtyards during this period, the two courtyards being separated from each other by a two-story wing. This is when the symmetrical layout of the main square
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In 1885–1886, French-born architect Jacques Klein removed the Baroque elements of the building. His interventions primarily concerned the facades of the building and are decisive to this day in the appearance of the building. Also then, the wing separating the inner courtyards was demolished.
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facade and its double entrance are created. The two gates, which led to the two inner courtyards through arched doorways, still show the decorative forms of this period. Shortly after these transformations, the building began to be used as a county palace. After the suppression of the
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functioned here, and between 1944 and 1958 it housed the commandment of the Soviet troops stationed in Timișoara. During the communist period it was left in disrepair, only at the end of the 1980s the restoration of the edifice began. Since 1984 it houses the Art Department of the
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the Administration of the Banat Chancellery and the Military Cashier Service. In 1754, the Old Chamber House was set up as the residence of the first president of the civil administration, the Count of Vilana Perlas, known for a while as the President's House/Palace.
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until 2006, when it became an independent museum. Consequently, the history of the art museum is closely linked to the history of the Museum of Banat, founded in 1872 at the initiative of some local cultural figures. The nucleus of Timișoara's
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was established, already in the 1730s–1740s the Austrian military engineers proposed the construction of a residence that would belong to the civilian governor. In the same period, the locations of the
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is formed by the important collection of Italian, Flemish, German, Austrian, Hungarian and Romanian paintings donated in 1888–1895 by
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Roșiu, Liliana (2002). "Vechea prefectură din Timișoara – de la Palatul Președintelui la muzeu de artă".
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During a reconstruction in 1774, the palace was expanded with a new wing in the direction of the
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in 1849 and until 1861, the building served as the administrative headquarters of the
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After the defeat of the Ottomans who ruled Timișoara for 164 years, the
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Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
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Over time, the art museum was housed in different locations (
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on two levels (forming the so-called "colossal order"), with
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functioned in the Baroque Palace, which later became the
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Timișoara
Oradea
Baroque Palace of Oradea

Union Square
Baroque
Union Square
Timișoara
Coordinates
45°45′26″N 21°13′45″E / 45.75722°N 21.22917°E / 45.75722; 21.22917
Franz Anton Hillebrandt
de
Romanian
historic centre
Timișoara
Romanian
Baroque style
Joseph II
Franz Joseph I
Ferdinand I
Franz Liszt
Johannes Brahms
Pablo Sarasate
George Enescu

Romanian
House of Habsburg
Banat
Roman Catholic Cathedral
Serbian Orthodox Cathedral

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