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Wine Cups
This pair of elaborate Where to See
Renaissance wine cups, the Gothic and
dating from the 16th
century, is designed to Renaissance City
fit together to form a The full bloom of the Gothic
covered receptacle. period took place in Hungary
in the 14th century. Mátyás
Church (see pp86–7) has
portals that survive from this
era. Renaissance art reached
Hungary thanks to Italian
masters brought by Mátyás’s
Crest of King Mátyás second wife, Beatrice. Both the
Corvinus Royal Palace (pp74–5) and the
Inscribed with the date 1470, summer palace at Visegrád
this crest com memorates (p168) were out standing
the building of significant pieces of Renaissance
addi tions to Mátyás Church architecture. Since the storm­
(see pp86–7), which was then ing of Buda by the Turks, only
renamed after the king. a few remnants of the former
splendour have remained.
Hungarian
King Louis II
knight

A chapel of the Royal Palace
from the period of Angevin
rule can be seen in the
basement of the Budapest
History Museum (see p76).

The Discovery of Louis II’s Body This portal of Mátyás
At the Battle of Mohács, on 29 August 1526, King Louis II lost his Church dates from the 14th
life together with thousands of Hungarian and Polish knights. century. In the 19th century,
The tragic scene of the finding of his body was recreated by a Neo­Gothic porch was built
Bertalan Székely in 1859. around it.

1440 Władysław III of Poland 1473 Chronica Ulászló I II
is Ulászló I of Hungary Hungarorum, the first 1514 Peasant (ruled 1490–1516)
book to be published revolt under
1456 Victory over
Turks at the Battle in Hungary, is printed György Dózsa
of Belgrade by András Hess
1450 1475 1500 1525 1550
1458–1490 Reign 1478 Law is passed 1526 Defeat by the Turks at the
of Mátyás Corvinus threatening landlords Battle of Mohács. King Louis II
who fail to maintain perishes during the fighting
1444 Ulászló I I is killed their buildings with
during the Battle of Varna dispossession Shield of soldier in the army
of Mátyás Corvinus

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