Royal palace of French kings VS. Hungarian royal palace (15th century) - Page 13 - Historum

**DreamWeaver** · July 7th, 2012, 02:29 PM

15th Century, Neufchatel en Bray

15th Century

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Larrey · July 7th, 2012, 03:34 PM

Well, there's no debating taste.

But besides that, why would Renaissance art be considered progress from Gothic art in the first place?

Intellectually the rather brain-dead Renaissance cult of the Classics threw a spenner in the intellectual works of the very interesting High and Late Middle Ages. For one thing, Renaissance insistance on everyone talking and writing Latin like they were bloody Cicero at least helped along the decline of Latin culture in Europe, being sort of stupidly elitist.

Opinion · July 7th, 2012, 09:07 PM

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These appear rather comparable in artistic terms, especially the two gilded heads, I would not really say one is more fine or detailed than the other. Its also not from a century earlier, the Ladislaus Reliquary is a 14th Century creation, just like the French one. Hardly so advanced and finer as to place them significantly ahead of their French counterparts. The bronze statue is a clear advancement, but that's from Prague, and its a 20th Century reproduction of the 1373 original, not Hungarian, have you no images of the Hungarian statues, or are the statues no longer existent? That Hungary is centuries ahead of the French doesn't really seem to be the case. Artistic styles and abilities are close enough.

What is the date of the creation of the angelic statue? It seems somewhat out of place in comparison to the others.

Again, it is a Hungarian made bronze statue in Prague -the St.Georg statue is clearly 700years old, only the copy in Kolozsvár (now Cluj ) the birthplace og the sculptor is younger-, and the Hungarian sculptor worked mostly in Hungary. Most of his statues (like the ernomous hunyadi family statues) were transformed into cannons during the Ottoman conquest.

**DreamWeaver** · July 8th, 2012, 02:12 AM

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Again, it is a Hungarian made bronze statue in Prague -the St.Georg statue is clearly 700years old, only the copy in Kolozsvár (now Cluj ) the birthplace og the sculptor is younger-, and the Hungarian sculptor worked mostly in Hungary. Most of his statues (like the ernomous hunyadi family statues) were transformed into cannons during the Ottoman conquest.

Was the statue made in Cluj or was the statue made in Prague, or elsewhere for that matter? Where was the actual workshop that founded this work of art? Are there any 700 year old equestrian statues in Hungary? Are there any left existent or have they all been turned into cannon or something else?