Van Eyck
Man in a Blue Cap โ Romania's most precious painting.
Dragos Dumitru โ CC BY 2.0 ยท Popa Radu โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ro ยท GerritR โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Asurnipal โ CC BY-SA 4.0
A Sibiu Saxon who became governor of Transylvania at imperial Vienna, spent his fortune on art and books and willed it all to his city โ the first cultural bequest of its kind in the region.
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Romania's first museum and among Europe's oldest: Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, governor of Transylvania under Maria Theresa, opened his Baroque palace on the Large Square to the public in 1817 with the collection he had assembled in Vienna โ Flemish, Dutch, German and Italian paintings, a library of three hundred thousand volumes, coins and minerals. The European wing is its jewel: Van Eyck's "Man in a Blue Cap", works by Brueghel the Younger, Teniers, Lucas Cranach and Titian, hung in the original rooms with their furniture and chandeliers as the Baron left them. From the upper floor the balcony looks over the Large Square and the Council Tower. Its branches across the city โ the history museum in Altemberger House, pharmacy, natural history โ take separate or combined tickets, and the palace itself is the best indoor hour in Sibiu.
Man in a Blue Cap โ Romania's most precious painting.
The Baron's furniture and chandeliers as they were.
Three hundred thousand Enlightenment volumes.
Piaศa Mare 4-5, Sibiu