Medieval Hungary

Being busy has kept me from updating this blog for some time, however, I was busy getting information out about the art of medieval Hungary ...

The following news does not have much to do with medieval art in Hungary, but it is a very significant discovery made at a Hungarian museu...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has recently called attention to a magnificent ostrich egg cup on Twitter: #WorldEggDay Silver gilt cup...

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

The very exciting digitisation process at the Vatican Library is going ahead at full speed, and the Library has made available online two m...

The Polybios-Corvina at the exhibition. Photo: National Széchényi Library  Four precious manuscripts from the famed library of King Mat...

Raphael: Head of an Angel. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest  Today is the birthday of Raphael , who was born in 1483. Only 37 years later...

Andrea del Verrocchio: Alexander the Great Washington, National Gallery of Art The exhibition Matthias Corvinus and Florence - Art and...

It has recently been stated by the Hungaarian government that new financial sources have been provided for the completion of the restor...

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

Lino Pertile, the director of Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence), as well as Assista...

Back in 2007, a major conference was organized at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florenc...

A number of very useful online image databases have been launched recently, dedicated to late medieval / northern Renaissance painting. Als...

Rather than being a proper post, this is more like a collection of links - links to full-length books on medieval and Renaissance art in ...

Lidded jug, 1605. Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt / Sibiu)  © Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt  Since earlier this year, the gold and...