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Baroque Architecture in Slovenia: Gruber Palace, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, Kresija Palace, Souvan House

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Description:Chapters: Gruber Palace, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, Kresija Palace, Souvan House. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gruber Palace is a palace in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia located on the Ljubljanica river bank. It currently houses the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia. The palace was built between 1773 and 1781 in a braided Baroque and Rococo style by the Jesuit Viennese hydrology expert and architect Gabriel Gruber who as the builder of the Gruberjev kanal drainage channel used the palace as a physics and hydraulics research institute. Testament to this is that he equipped the palace with its own astronomical observatory for the purposes of Gruber's School of Hydraulics and Mechanics . Gruber was later deported to Russia around 1784. In 1840, the palace was purchased by Anton Virant who merged the property with his own adjacent and used it as a guest accommodation and cafe named "Zur Sternwarte" (meaning observatory). In 1887, it was bought by the Carniolan Saving Bank and in 1965, become the National Archive of Slovenia, undergoing renewal in 1990 . The palace is designed in the late Baroque and Rococo style by highly shilled stucco artisans who commissioned to decorate its fa ade and interior. The Palace is noted for its oval staircase in cool pastel colors of the era and braided and is topped with a domed ceiling designed allegorically, it is a fresco of trade, crafts and technology, completed in 1786 by Andrej Herrlein, two years after Gruber himself had been forced to leave. On the first floor of the palace is a chapel adorned with paintings depicting the life of the Virgin Mary which were painted by the Austrian painter Johann Martin Schmidt, also known as Kremser Schmidt. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16405116We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Baroque Architecture in Slovenia: Gruber Palace, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, Kresija Palace, Souvan House. To get started finding Baroque Architecture in Slovenia: Gruber Palace, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, Kresija Palace, Souvan House, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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20
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Release
2010
ISBN
1158591306

Baroque Architecture in Slovenia: Gruber Palace, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, Kresija Palace, Souvan House

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Description: Chapters: Gruber Palace, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, Kresija Palace, Souvan House. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gruber Palace is a palace in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia located on the Ljubljanica river bank. It currently houses the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia. The palace was built between 1773 and 1781 in a braided Baroque and Rococo style by the Jesuit Viennese hydrology expert and architect Gabriel Gruber who as the builder of the Gruberjev kanal drainage channel used the palace as a physics and hydraulics research institute. Testament to this is that he equipped the palace with its own astronomical observatory for the purposes of Gruber's School of Hydraulics and Mechanics . Gruber was later deported to Russia around 1784. In 1840, the palace was purchased by Anton Virant who merged the property with his own adjacent and used it as a guest accommodation and cafe named "Zur Sternwarte" (meaning observatory). In 1887, it was bought by the Carniolan Saving Bank and in 1965, become the National Archive of Slovenia, undergoing renewal in 1990 . The palace is designed in the late Baroque and Rococo style by highly shilled stucco artisans who commissioned to decorate its fa ade and interior. The Palace is noted for its oval staircase in cool pastel colors of the era and braided and is topped with a domed ceiling designed allegorically, it is a fresco of trade, crafts and technology, completed in 1786 by Andrej Herrlein, two years after Gruber himself had been forced to leave. On the first floor of the palace is a chapel adorned with paintings depicting the life of the Virgin Mary which were painted by the Austrian painter Johann Martin Schmidt, also known as Kremser Schmidt. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16405116We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Baroque Architecture in Slovenia: Gruber Palace, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, Kresija Palace, Souvan House. To get started finding Baroque Architecture in Slovenia: Gruber Palace, Ljubljana Town Hall, Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity, Kresija Palace, Souvan House, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
20
Format
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Publisher
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Release
2010
ISBN
1158591306

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