Medieval Hungary

The long-awaited English edition of the monograph on the Hungarian Angevin Legendary, written by Béla Zsolt Szakács, has finally been...

Chalice, 1462, Inv. 2010.109.6 As reported earlier on this blog , The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently purchased the best object...

We already had a chance to enjoy numerous medieval exhibitions this year - see for example my overview of exhibitions dedicated to various ...

I am currently on vacation in the New York area, and thus I had a chance to explore the museums of New York City a little bit. As always, t...

Even though New York obviously has no original medieval buildings (except for those built into The Cloisters), the City is home to wonderfu...

My recent visit to the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne got me thinking about museums focusing mainly on medieval art. I decided to make a bri...

The Metropolitan Museum has just made available a number of detail photographs of the two medieval chalices which had recently enter...

I could not resist - I have to include here a few other superb objects from the Salgó collection. All these have been published before in th...

Chalice with filigree enamel Hungary, 1462 Metropolitan Museum of Art  One of the most important collection of Hungarian goldsmith wor...