FLORAL ORNAMENTS IN THE TIMISOARA’S ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

The future cultural capital, an international tourist destination, the city of Timişoara, situated on the banks of the Bega Canal, the largest city from Banat, component part of Romania, surrounded by the Danube, Tisa, Mures and the Southern Carpathians, is distinguished by its natural and entropic resources. The territory inhabited since ancient times by the Dacians, and then conquered by the Romans, had the fate of the border lands, always in the way of the conquerors, the Hungarian Crown, the Ottoman Empire, the Austrian Empire. In Timisoara, at the beginning of the 20th century under Austro-Hungarian domination, elements of the 1900 site are less obvious in terms of volume distribution, due to the lower financial power of the comrades, a particular importance having the ornamentation both in movement and in balance. Floral ornaments are varied: sunflower, tulip, lion's mouth, lily, lambs, garlands and floral bouquets but also other floral motifs such as leaves, tree of life, being present in the decoration of frontage of palace-buildings, alone or combined with other geometric ornaments.