Despite the hodgepodge of revival styles, the palace looks surprisingly harmonious. It's a fascinating structure, with an amalgam of curious looking towers, turrets, onion domes, oriental arches and crenellated walls. The use of yellow, pink and purple pastel colors completes the fairy-tale character of the palace. The design of the palace is the result of the romanticist movement of the nineteenth century during which artists often portrayed history with idyllic nostalgia. The architect, the German Ludwig von Eschwege, created a fascinating mixture of revival styles, with neo-Manueline, Oriental, Renaissance and even Egyptian motifs. In 1910, when the monarchy was overthrown, the palace became a national museum.