Japanisches Palais
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Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...
palace in Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
, eastern Germany
Germany
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, built in 1715. It was extended in 1729-1731, to store the Japanese porcelain collection of Augustus the Strong (see Dresden Porcelain Collection
Dresden Porcelain Collection
The Dresden Porcelain Collection is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen of Dresden, Germany. It is located in the Zwinger Palace.-History and description:...
), although it was never used for this purpose, and instead was used as a library.
The Japanisches Palais was partly destroyed during the allied bombing raids
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
The Bombing of Dresden was a military bombing by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force and as part of the Allied forces between 13 February and 15 February 1945 in the Second World War...
on 13 February 1945, but was reconstructed in the 1950s and 1960s. The final reconstruction work continued until 1987. It currently hosts the Museum of Ethnology Dresden
Museum of Ethnology Dresden
The Museum of Ethnology Dresden contains an ethnographic collection with more than 90,000 objects from all parts of the earth.The museum is housed in the Japanisches Palais, a Baroque building complex on the Elbe....
.