Brâncovenesc style

The Brâncoveanu style is a Wallachian prince Constantin Brâncoveanu after (1688-1714) named style that is found mainly in the south of present-day Romania. It combines Italian - Venetian and Oriental style elements in it. Are characteristic of helically twisted columns supported loggias, combined round and pointed arch windows, wide overhanging wooden roofs, lush facade ornaments with plant motifs. Beginning of the 20th century learned this style as Neo - Brâncoveanu style of a renaissance.

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Castle Mogoşoaia in Bucharest

Mogoşoaia ensemble in Bucharest ( entrance gate )

Stavropoleos Church in Bucharest

The prefecture built from Craiova, in neo- Brâncoveanu style