Gothic art in Hungary 1300-1500
The largest museum collection of winged altars, panels and wooden sculptures in Hungary is kept in the Hungarian National Gallery. The exhibition on the ground floor of Building D presents the artefacts of this collection dating between 1300 and 1500, basically following the chronology and changes in style, but also paying attention to the original place of their production and use. It introduces the atmosphere of the church interior, which was enriched by changing needs and possibilities, and concludes with a set of early winged altars.
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The Gothic panels, wooden sculptures and winged altars are monuments to the decoration of our medieval churches. The furnishings used in the Western liturgy were made to convey religious content. The vast majority of the panel paintings belonged to winged altars, while smaller altars and individual reliquaries, which could also carry relics, were used for personal religious reflection outside church services. The majority of the wooden sculptures in our collection were also winged altars, their form and iconography determined by their place in the altar complex.
Hungarian National Gallery
The Hungarian National Gallery is the largest public collection documenting and presenting fine art in Hungary. The permanent exhibitions of the museum, located in the Buda Castle Palace complex, showcase the most important works of Hungarian art, including masterpieces by Master MS, Pál Szinyei Merse, Mihály Munkácsy, József Rippl-Rónai and Dóra Maurer.
