Medieval Hungary

The year 2022 marks the 800th anniversary of the issuance of the Golden Bull by King Andrew II.  Issued at the 1222 Diet held at Fehérvár, t...

The new exhibition of the Cultural History Museum is titled 'Faszination Stadt  - The Allure of Cities,' and is dedicated to the...

After three years of reconstruction work, the Museum of Fine Arts is now again open for visitors in Budapest. The museumʼs heating and ai...

Headwig Beaker, 12th century. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass (67.1.11)  During my recent visit to the Corning Museum of G...

A major new exhibition about the building and the history of the Church of Our Lady (Matthias Church) of Buda Castle opened at the Budape...

Photo of the Romanesque Hall at the Museum of Fine Art © MTI The Museum of Fine Arts  in Budapest will be closed for the renovation of...

Medieval and Renaissance tapestries on view at Esztergom Calvary Tournai, late 15th century Esztergom, Christian Museum   An exhi...

Diptych, Paris, 14th century. Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest At the most recent update of the Gothic Ivories Project , coordinated by...

2012 represented a sort of breakthrough for Hungarian art museums in the process of putting their collections online. When I wrote about th...

Last week I had a chance to see the exhibition " Glanz und Grösse des Mittelalters " at the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne ( Sp...

Throne room in the former royal palace - now the home of winged altarpieces in the National Gallery  Hungary (and its capital, Budapes...

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...

I will keep this post very short - there seems to be an ever richer selection of medieval art websites out there. I just want to point out a...

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