Medieval History
My Hungarian-speaking readers can read a new study on Pécs cathedral written by Gergely Buzás, and made available online in memory of Melinda Tóth. I also wrote about Pécs cathedral in a previous post.
- Summer Intensive Course - Luminosus Limes: Geographical, Ethnic, Social And Cultural Frontiers In Late Antiquity
Central European University, Budapest, July 7-12, 2014http://www.summer.ceu.hu/limes-2014What is a frontier? Does it serve to separate or to link countries, peoples, classes, ideas? Frontiers have become increasingly significant...
- The Medieval University Of Pécs
General view of the site north of the cathedral Photo: muemlekem.hu Hungary's first university was founded in 1367 at Pécs, with faculties of philosophy, law and medicine (no theology). The university was created by the bishop of Pécs, Vilmos...
- Medieval Stone Carvings Stolen From The Hungarian National Gallery
As it was revealead on Tuesday, two highly important Romanesque stone carvings had been stolen from the Hungarian National Gallery some time in early February. Both carvings were on view in the medieval lapidary of the Gallery, located on the ground floor...
- Catalogue Of Romanesque Stone Carvings
Red marble head of a king from Kalocsa cathedral Hungarian National Gallery The Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest has one of the most significant collections of medieval stone carvings in Hungary. The collection includes the highest quality...
- Late Antique And Medieval Buildings At Pécs In 3d Reconstructions
The town of Pécs is one of Europe's Cultural Capitals in 2010. Not much in terms of new buildings was completed by this year - but Pécs has a 2000 year old history, with remains of a number of very important Early Christian and medieval buildings....
Medieval History
In memoriam Melinda Tóth
Art historian Melinda Tóth passed away in January 2013, at the age of 74. Melinda Tóth spent a lifetime researching Hungarian Romanesque art and was one of the leading scholars of the field. She worked until her retirement at the Art History Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research concentrated on two fields: Romanesque sculpture and Romanesque wall-painting, in the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary. She was the author of the most recent monograph on wall-painting in Hungary in the Árpád-period (1974, a revision in the form of an article was published in 1995). In the field of Romaneque sculpture, she concentrated mainly on the study of Pécs cathedral. It was largely due to her efforts that the magnificient stone carvings from the medieval cathedral found a permament home in the new cathedral museum, which opened in 2004. Unfortunately, the catalogue of the carvings and the accompanying study on the cathedral sculptures was not finished until the death of Melinda Tóth. However, she published numerous studies on the subject in various journals and exhibition catalogues. I could not find a bibliography of her works online, but a query in Kubikat gives good results.
I had a chance to work together with Melinda Tóth at the mid-1990s, when she worked on the survey and cataloguing of the Pécs sculptures. This material was at the time kept at an abandoned movie building in a village in the hills above Pécs. The situation there was so appaling that even the World Monument Fund was alerted. Restoration of the pieces then began with their support. However, it took another ten years for the new museum to be built according to the plans of Zoltán Bachman.
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| Stone carvings from Pécs cathedral in storage, 1990s |
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| Detail from the story of Samson; 12th c. relief from Pécs cathedral |
My Hungarian-speaking readers can read a new study on Pécs cathedral written by Gergely Buzás, and made available online in memory of Melinda Tóth. I also wrote about Pécs cathedral in a previous post.
- Summer Intensive Course - Luminosus Limes: Geographical, Ethnic, Social And Cultural Frontiers In Late Antiquity
Central European University, Budapest, July 7-12, 2014http://www.summer.ceu.hu/limes-2014What is a frontier? Does it serve to separate or to link countries, peoples, classes, ideas? Frontiers have become increasingly significant...
- The Medieval University Of Pécs
General view of the site north of the cathedral Photo: muemlekem.hu Hungary's first university was founded in 1367 at Pécs, with faculties of philosophy, law and medicine (no theology). The university was created by the bishop of Pécs, Vilmos...
- Medieval Stone Carvings Stolen From The Hungarian National Gallery
As it was revealead on Tuesday, two highly important Romanesque stone carvings had been stolen from the Hungarian National Gallery some time in early February. Both carvings were on view in the medieval lapidary of the Gallery, located on the ground floor...
- Catalogue Of Romanesque Stone Carvings
Red marble head of a king from Kalocsa cathedral Hungarian National Gallery The Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest has one of the most significant collections of medieval stone carvings in Hungary. The collection includes the highest quality...
- Late Antique And Medieval Buildings At Pécs In 3d Reconstructions
The town of Pécs is one of Europe's Cultural Capitals in 2010. Not much in terms of new buildings was completed by this year - but Pécs has a 2000 year old history, with remains of a number of very important Early Christian and medieval buildings....