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Books by Borbála Gulyás

The Art of the Calligrapher George Bocskay. Budapest, Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Művészettörténeti Intézet [Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History], 2023. 408 p. 11 b/w, 208 color illustrations. ISBN 978-615-5133-22-0, 2023

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Bocskay György kalligráfus művészete, Budapest, Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Művészettörténeti Intézet [Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History], 2020. 366 p. ISBN 978-615-5133-17-6, 2020

Minden jog fenntartva, beleértve a sokszorosítás, a nyilvános előadás, a rádió-és televízióadás, ... more Minden jog fenntartva, beleértve a sokszorosítás, a nyilvános előadás, a rádió-és televízióadás, valamint a fordítás jogát, az egyes fejezeteket illetően is.

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Gulyás, B. – Mikó, Á. – Ugry, B. szerk./eds., Reneszánsz és barokk Magyarországon. Művészettörténeti tanulmányok Galavics Géza tiszteletére I–II., BTK Művészettörténeti Intézet [Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History], Budapest, 2021., 2021

Papers by Borbála Gulyás

Acta historiae artium Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Jun 26, 2024

Stefan Krause ed., Tournaments. A Thousand Years of Chivalry. Kunsthistorisches Museum – Thomas del Mar, Wien, 2022, 66–81., 2022

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Árvai-Józsa, K. – Nagy, E. – Sisa, J. – Székely, M. – Tatai, E. szerk./eds., Látkép 2021. Művészettörténeti tanulmányok. 05. Tárgyak, történetek, rétegek [Panorama 2021. Cah. 5. Objects, Histories, Layers]. BTK Művészettörténeti Intézet [RCH Institute of Art History], Budapest, 2022, 281–288., 2022

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Gulyás, B. – Mikó, Á. – Ugry, B. szerk./eds., Reneszánsz és barokk Magyarországon. Művészettörténeti tanulmányok Galavics Géza tiszteletére I–II., BTK Művészettörténeti Intézet [Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History], Budapest, 2021, , 71–98.

Leipzig-born Donat Hübschmann (d. 1583) worked in Vienna as engraver and painter in the second ha... more Leipzig-born Donat Hübschmann (d. 1583) worked in Vienna as engraver and painter in the second half of the 16th century. Reviewing his career, we find a typical urban master who worked for the court, the city and individuals alike. His repertoire included almost everything, from tiny prints to painting the clock of the town hall. His clients from Hungary were people present in Vienna at that time, concentrated around the joint court of the composite Habsburg Monarchy. Archbishop of Esztergom Miklós Oláh (Nicolaus Olahus) the head of the Hungarian Court Chancellery, commissioned him to make a copy of his engraved portrait (1560–1562). János Zsámboky (Johannes Sambucus), who was in the service of the court as a humanist, ordered two works from him. With an illustrated broadsheet (prepared in 1564–1565) he perpetuated the coronation of Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg as king of Hungary in Pozsony in 1563, adorned with a woodcut by Donat, a Pozsony veduta and a detailed depiction of the coronation festivities. In 1566 Zsámboky had him copy the first printed map of Hungary, Lazarus’ Tabula Hungariae (1528). In the oeuvre of the artist further works of Hungarian relevance can be found, including the portrait of Hans Francolin the Younger, the Hungarian herald of King Ferdinand I, in his Tournament Book (1561).
It is also possible that yet another group of works (1572–1573) may also be subsumed in the oeuvre of Hübschmann which is connected to the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna. It includes four letters patent (grants of arms, Wappenbrief) the calligraphic ornament of which can be attributed to György (George) Bocskay (d. 1575) and the illuminated arms of which were painted by a master indicated by the initials “DH”, i. e. very probably Donat Hübschmann. Each charter was made for an important Hungarian person of the age connected to the Viennese court: János Pethő de Gerse III (1525–1578, royal master of chamberlains, captain general of the major border fortress Komárom), János Liszthy (Johannes Listhius, d. 1577, chancellor of the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna), Sebestyén Thököly (d. 1607, a commodity trader), and János Zermegh (c. 1504–1584, councilor of the Hungarian Court Chamber in Pozsony, historiographer).

Tibor Martí – Roberto Quirós Rosado eds., Eagles Looking East and West. Dynasty, Ritual and Representation in Habsburg Hungary and Spain (Habsburg Worlds, 4.), Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021, 77–95., 2021

Szilágyi, Emőke Rita ed., Nicolaus Olahus 450, Proceedings of the International Conference on the 450th Anniversary of Nicolaus Olahus’ Death Wien, Institut für Ungarische Geschichtsforschung–Balassi Institut – Collegium Hungaricum–Archivdelegation beim Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, 2019, 37–50., 2019

J.R. Mulryne – Krista De Jonge – R.L.M. Morris – Pieter Martens eds., Occasions of State, Early Modern European Festivals and the Negotiation of Power (European Festival Studies, 1450–1700), London–New York, Routledge, 2019, 54–82., 2019

Andrea M. Gáldy – Sylvia Heudecker eds., Collecting Prints and Drawings (Collecting Histories), Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, 105–120., 2018

Fábián Laura – Lovas Borbála – Haraszti Szabó Péter – Uhrin Dorottya szerk./eds., A könyv és olvasója, A 14–16. századi könyvkultúra interdiszciplináris megvilágításban [The book and its reader, Book culture of the 14–16th c. in an interdisciplinary approach], Budapest, MTA-ELTE HECE, 2018, 59–74., 2018

[The Biography and Sepulchral Inscription of Tamás Nádasdy by Gábor Szentgyörgyi Preserved in a H... more [The Biography and Sepulchral Inscription of Tamás Nádasdy by Gábor Szentgyörgyi Preserved in a Hand-Written Volume of Miklós Istvánffy and on the Sepulchral Monument of Palatine Tamás Nádasdy and Orsolya Kanizsay in Léka / Lockenhaus, 1565–1566]

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Művészettörténeti Értesítő, 2017

The testament of the Hungarian calligrapher George Bocskay (†1575) has been recently discovered i... more The testament of the Hungarian calligrapher George Bocskay (†1575) has been recently discovered in the Archive of the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma. Bocskay made his will on the 4th of April 1575, in the house of the Hungarian magnate János Pethő de Gerse (III) in Vienna. The original document published here was written in Latin. The new data provided by the testament are of primary importance regarding the life and social network of George Bocskay. According to the text he left his property to his wife and children as well as his four servants, among others he bequeathed his books and instruments of calligraphy to his son, Stephen. His burial place was unknown yet. However, in his testament Bocskay ordered to be buried in the Himmelpfortkloster in Vienna. It was a significant medieval Premonstratesian cloister, founded for nuns by Constance of Hungary, the daughter of the Hungarian King Béla III, in the 1230s.

Fodor, Pál–Ács, Pál eds., Identity and Culture in Ottoman Hungary (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Türkvölker 24.), Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2017., 2017

Stefan Krause–Matthias Pfaffenbichler Hgg., Turnier, 1000 Jahre Ritterspiele, Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, München, Hirmer Verlag, 2017, 130–153., 2017

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Acta Historiae Artium, 2016

In this paper, the author examines the script forms and ornaments of five works by the Hungarian ... more In this paper, the author examines the script forms and ornaments of five works by the Hungarian calligrapher, George Bocskay (†1575), which have so far eluded researchers’ attention. All are manuscript charters on parchment, issued in Vienna in the second half of the sixteenth century by Habsburg rulers (some in their capacity as kings of Hungary), and all are of extremely high quality, decorated with elaborate calligraphy. Justification for presenting them together derives from their similar format: they are not conventional, single folio charters, but were all produced in booklet form. Since these manuscripts were closely connected with George Bocskay’s time as an official at the Viennese Court, the paper provides an overview of the different stages of his career there, based primarily on recently unearthed archive sources. For thirty years Bocskay worked at – and was promoted through the ranks of – the Hungarian Court Chancellery, which was the official government body within the composite state of the Habsburg Monarchy with responsibility for issuing charters pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary. Among the official documents issued here by the Habsburg rulers, in their capacity as kings of Hungary, the most important from an art historical aspect are the letters patent issued to members of the Hungarian nobility, which featured a miniature of the granted coat of arms and usually also calligraphic decoration. Based on the author’s latest research, several examples of such decoration can now be attributed to the calligrapher, whose activity even led to the creation of a calligraphic school within the Chancellery. This paper presents three previously unknown manuscripts, namely the letters patent issued to Márk Horváth-Stanchich (1558), János Pethő de Gerse (III) (1572), and János Liszthy (1573); the identity of the master who made the miniatures on the two latter documents is also suggested (Donat Hübschmann). Furthermore, the paper provides clarification of the reading of a Bocskay signature found on a letters patent (grant of barony) issued to Miklós Oláh (1558–60), already described in the literature as a work by the calligrapher. Also on the basis of relevant archive sources, the author goes on to opine that, in addition to his official positions at the Chancellery, Bocskay also served in another role within the Viennese Court, which can best be defined as “calligrapher to the ruler.” It was for such services that Ferdinand I of Habsburg, in his capacity as Hungarian king, also bestowed upon him the nominal title of royal courtier (in Latin: aulae regiae familiaris / aulicus). In the author’s opinion, the artist, as “calligrapher to the ruler,” was also given the commission to decorate two further important charters, also discussed in this paper, both ratifying royal marriages between Habsburg archduchesses and Italian noble houses. Issued in Vienna in 1565 by Emperor Maximilian II of
Habsburg and Archdukes Ferdinand and Charles, one charter ratified the marriage between Archduchess Barbara and Alfonso II d’Este, while the other ratified the marriage between Archduchess Joanna and Francesco Medici.

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Művészettörténeti Értesítő, 2016

The significant medieval town Újlak (today: Ilok, Croatia) located in the southern part of the Ki... more The significant medieval town Újlak (today: Ilok, Croatia) located in the southern part of the Kingdom of Hungary was successfully besieged by the Ottomans in 1526. However, its several church treasures (paraments, liturgical objects) together with the richly decorated borough charter of the town (1525–26, today in Vienna, ÖNB) were transferred to Nagyszombat (now: Trnava, Slovakia) and later to Vienna. The paper examines the transfer of the various objects based on inventories and letters of 1528.

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Between 1490—1526, numerous spectacular events–solemn entries, feasts, banquets and tournaments... more Between 1490—1526, numerous spectacular events–solemn entries, feasts, banquets and tournaments–were held at the Hungarian Royal Court under the rule of Wladislas II and later Louis II Jagiellon. The occasions for these events included coronations, weddings, diplomatic meetings, diets, church festivals and so forth, e. g. the wedding of Anne de Foix and Wladislas II and the coronation of the new queen consort in Székesfehérvár (Alba Regia) and Buda in 1502, or the Feast of the Corpus Christi in Buda in 1495, 1501, 1525, and 1526. Present study examines the organization process of the court festivals within the royal household, based on the Court’s preserved account books from 1494–1495 and 1525—1526, as well as other archive materials from the period. The analysis of the primary sources sheds new light on the workings of the Jagiellonian court during the festivities. One group of the courtiers, called aulicus and cubicularius, played a prime role there as organizers, participants and commissioners of the needed accessories. The purchased cloths, costumes, flags, banners, tournament equipment and ephemeral decorations were prepared by a lot of artists and artisans. The commissioned masters as painters–e. g. Hans Krell, the court painter of King Louis II–, sculptors, lace-makers, tailors, goldsmiths and so on were, on the one hand, employees of the Court, on the other, members of city guilds.

The Art of the Calligrapher George Bocskay. Budapest, Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Művészettörténeti Intézet [Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History], 2023. 408 p. 11 b/w, 208 color illustrations. ISBN 978-615-5133-22-0, 2023

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Bocskay György kalligráfus művészete, Budapest, Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Művészettörténeti Intézet [Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History], 2020. 366 p. ISBN 978-615-5133-17-6, 2020

Minden jog fenntartva, beleértve a sokszorosítás, a nyilvános előadás, a rádió-és televízióadás, ... more Minden jog fenntartva, beleértve a sokszorosítás, a nyilvános előadás, a rádió-és televízióadás, valamint a fordítás jogát, az egyes fejezeteket illetően is.

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Gulyás, B. – Mikó, Á. – Ugry, B. szerk./eds., Reneszánsz és barokk Magyarországon. Művészettörténeti tanulmányok Galavics Géza tiszteletére I–II., BTK Művészettörténeti Intézet [Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History], Budapest, 2021., 2021

Acta historiae artium Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Jun 26, 2024

Stefan Krause ed., Tournaments. A Thousand Years of Chivalry. Kunsthistorisches Museum – Thomas del Mar, Wien, 2022, 66–81., 2022

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Árvai-Józsa, K. – Nagy, E. – Sisa, J. – Székely, M. – Tatai, E. szerk./eds., Látkép 2021. Művészettörténeti tanulmányok. 05. Tárgyak, történetek, rétegek [Panorama 2021. Cah. 5. Objects, Histories, Layers]. BTK Művészettörténeti Intézet [RCH Institute of Art History], Budapest, 2022, 281–288., 2022

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Gulyás, B. – Mikó, Á. – Ugry, B. szerk./eds., Reneszánsz és barokk Magyarországon. Művészettörténeti tanulmányok Galavics Géza tiszteletére I–II., BTK Művészettörténeti Intézet [Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History], Budapest, 2021, , 71–98.

Leipzig-born Donat Hübschmann (d. 1583) worked in Vienna as engraver and painter in the second ha... more Leipzig-born Donat Hübschmann (d. 1583) worked in Vienna as engraver and painter in the second half of the 16th century. Reviewing his career, we find a typical urban master who worked for the court, the city and individuals alike. His repertoire included almost everything, from tiny prints to painting the clock of the town hall. His clients from Hungary were people present in Vienna at that time, concentrated around the joint court of the composite Habsburg Monarchy. Archbishop of Esztergom Miklós Oláh (Nicolaus Olahus) the head of the Hungarian Court Chancellery, commissioned him to make a copy of his engraved portrait (1560–1562). János Zsámboky (Johannes Sambucus), who was in the service of the court as a humanist, ordered two works from him. With an illustrated broadsheet (prepared in 1564–1565) he perpetuated the coronation of Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg as king of Hungary in Pozsony in 1563, adorned with a woodcut by Donat, a Pozsony veduta and a detailed depiction of the coronation festivities. In 1566 Zsámboky had him copy the first printed map of Hungary, Lazarus’ Tabula Hungariae (1528). In the oeuvre of the artist further works of Hungarian relevance can be found, including the portrait of Hans Francolin the Younger, the Hungarian herald of King Ferdinand I, in his Tournament Book (1561).
It is also possible that yet another group of works (1572–1573) may also be subsumed in the oeuvre of Hübschmann which is connected to the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna. It includes four letters patent (grants of arms, Wappenbrief) the calligraphic ornament of which can be attributed to György (George) Bocskay (d. 1575) and the illuminated arms of which were painted by a master indicated by the initials “DH”, i. e. very probably Donat Hübschmann. Each charter was made for an important Hungarian person of the age connected to the Viennese court: János Pethő de Gerse III (1525–1578, royal master of chamberlains, captain general of the major border fortress Komárom), János Liszthy (Johannes Listhius, d. 1577, chancellor of the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna), Sebestyén Thököly (d. 1607, a commodity trader), and János Zermegh (c. 1504–1584, councilor of the Hungarian Court Chamber in Pozsony, historiographer).

Tibor Martí – Roberto Quirós Rosado eds., Eagles Looking East and West. Dynasty, Ritual and Representation in Habsburg Hungary and Spain (Habsburg Worlds, 4.), Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021, 77–95., 2021

Szilágyi, Emőke Rita ed., Nicolaus Olahus 450, Proceedings of the International Conference on the 450th Anniversary of Nicolaus Olahus’ Death Wien, Institut für Ungarische Geschichtsforschung–Balassi Institut – Collegium Hungaricum–Archivdelegation beim Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, 2019, 37–50., 2019

J.R. Mulryne – Krista De Jonge – R.L.M. Morris – Pieter Martens eds., Occasions of State, Early Modern European Festivals and the Negotiation of Power (European Festival Studies, 1450–1700), London–New York, Routledge, 2019, 54–82., 2019

Andrea M. Gáldy – Sylvia Heudecker eds., Collecting Prints and Drawings (Collecting Histories), Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, 105–120., 2018

Fábián Laura – Lovas Borbála – Haraszti Szabó Péter – Uhrin Dorottya szerk./eds., A könyv és olvasója, A 14–16. századi könyvkultúra interdiszciplináris megvilágításban [The book and its reader, Book culture of the 14–16th c. in an interdisciplinary approach], Budapest, MTA-ELTE HECE, 2018, 59–74., 2018

[The Biography and Sepulchral Inscription of Tamás Nádasdy by Gábor Szentgyörgyi Preserved in a H... more [The Biography and Sepulchral Inscription of Tamás Nádasdy by Gábor Szentgyörgyi Preserved in a Hand-Written Volume of Miklós Istvánffy and on the Sepulchral Monument of Palatine Tamás Nádasdy and Orsolya Kanizsay in Léka / Lockenhaus, 1565–1566]

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Művészettörténeti Értesítő, 2017

The testament of the Hungarian calligrapher George Bocskay (†1575) has been recently discovered i... more The testament of the Hungarian calligrapher George Bocskay (†1575) has been recently discovered in the Archive of the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma. Bocskay made his will on the 4th of April 1575, in the house of the Hungarian magnate János Pethő de Gerse (III) in Vienna. The original document published here was written in Latin. The new data provided by the testament are of primary importance regarding the life and social network of George Bocskay. According to the text he left his property to his wife and children as well as his four servants, among others he bequeathed his books and instruments of calligraphy to his son, Stephen. His burial place was unknown yet. However, in his testament Bocskay ordered to be buried in the Himmelpfortkloster in Vienna. It was a significant medieval Premonstratesian cloister, founded for nuns by Constance of Hungary, the daughter of the Hungarian King Béla III, in the 1230s.

Fodor, Pál–Ács, Pál eds., Identity and Culture in Ottoman Hungary (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Türkvölker 24.), Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2017., 2017

Stefan Krause–Matthias Pfaffenbichler Hgg., Turnier, 1000 Jahre Ritterspiele, Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, München, Hirmer Verlag, 2017, 130–153., 2017

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Acta Historiae Artium, 2016

In this paper, the author examines the script forms and ornaments of five works by the Hungarian ... more In this paper, the author examines the script forms and ornaments of five works by the Hungarian calligrapher, George Bocskay (†1575), which have so far eluded researchers’ attention. All are manuscript charters on parchment, issued in Vienna in the second half of the sixteenth century by Habsburg rulers (some in their capacity as kings of Hungary), and all are of extremely high quality, decorated with elaborate calligraphy. Justification for presenting them together derives from their similar format: they are not conventional, single folio charters, but were all produced in booklet form. Since these manuscripts were closely connected with George Bocskay’s time as an official at the Viennese Court, the paper provides an overview of the different stages of his career there, based primarily on recently unearthed archive sources. For thirty years Bocskay worked at – and was promoted through the ranks of – the Hungarian Court Chancellery, which was the official government body within the composite state of the Habsburg Monarchy with responsibility for issuing charters pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary. Among the official documents issued here by the Habsburg rulers, in their capacity as kings of Hungary, the most important from an art historical aspect are the letters patent issued to members of the Hungarian nobility, which featured a miniature of the granted coat of arms and usually also calligraphic decoration. Based on the author’s latest research, several examples of such decoration can now be attributed to the calligrapher, whose activity even led to the creation of a calligraphic school within the Chancellery. This paper presents three previously unknown manuscripts, namely the letters patent issued to Márk Horváth-Stanchich (1558), János Pethő de Gerse (III) (1572), and János Liszthy (1573); the identity of the master who made the miniatures on the two latter documents is also suggested (Donat Hübschmann). Furthermore, the paper provides clarification of the reading of a Bocskay signature found on a letters patent (grant of barony) issued to Miklós Oláh (1558–60), already described in the literature as a work by the calligrapher. Also on the basis of relevant archive sources, the author goes on to opine that, in addition to his official positions at the Chancellery, Bocskay also served in another role within the Viennese Court, which can best be defined as “calligrapher to the ruler.” It was for such services that Ferdinand I of Habsburg, in his capacity as Hungarian king, also bestowed upon him the nominal title of royal courtier (in Latin: aulae regiae familiaris / aulicus). In the author’s opinion, the artist, as “calligrapher to the ruler,” was also given the commission to decorate two further important charters, also discussed in this paper, both ratifying royal marriages between Habsburg archduchesses and Italian noble houses. Issued in Vienna in 1565 by Emperor Maximilian II of
Habsburg and Archdukes Ferdinand and Charles, one charter ratified the marriage between Archduchess Barbara and Alfonso II d’Este, while the other ratified the marriage between Archduchess Joanna and Francesco Medici.

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Művészettörténeti Értesítő, 2016

The significant medieval town Újlak (today: Ilok, Croatia) located in the southern part of the Ki... more The significant medieval town Újlak (today: Ilok, Croatia) located in the southern part of the Kingdom of Hungary was successfully besieged by the Ottomans in 1526. However, its several church treasures (paraments, liturgical objects) together with the richly decorated borough charter of the town (1525–26, today in Vienna, ÖNB) were transferred to Nagyszombat (now: Trnava, Slovakia) and later to Vienna. The paper examines the transfer of the various objects based on inventories and letters of 1528.

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Between 1490—1526, numerous spectacular events–solemn entries, feasts, banquets and tournaments... more Between 1490—1526, numerous spectacular events–solemn entries, feasts, banquets and tournaments–were held at the Hungarian Royal Court under the rule of Wladislas II and later Louis II Jagiellon. The occasions for these events included coronations, weddings, diplomatic meetings, diets, church festivals and so forth, e. g. the wedding of Anne de Foix and Wladislas II and the coronation of the new queen consort in Székesfehérvár (Alba Regia) and Buda in 1502, or the Feast of the Corpus Christi in Buda in 1495, 1501, 1525, and 1526. Present study examines the organization process of the court festivals within the royal household, based on the Court’s preserved account books from 1494–1495 and 1525—1526, as well as other archive materials from the period. The analysis of the primary sources sheds new light on the workings of the Jagiellonian court during the festivities. One group of the courtiers, called aulicus and cubicularius, played a prime role there as organizers, participants and commissioners of the needed accessories. The purchased cloths, costumes, flags, banners, tournament equipment and ephemeral decorations were prepared by a lot of artists and artisans. The commissioned masters as painters–e. g. Hans Krell, the court painter of King Louis II–, sculptors, lace-makers, tailors, goldsmiths and so on were, on the one hand, employees of the Court, on the other, members of city guilds.

Robert Born–Sabine Jagodzinski Hgg., Türkenkriege und Adelskultur in Ostmitteleuropa vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 14.), Ostfildern, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2014, 217–236., 2014

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Művészettörténeti Értesítő, 2014

György (George) Bocskay (†1575) was a member of a well-known Hungarian noble family. He was capab... more György (George) Bocskay (†1575) was a member of a well-known Hungarian noble family. He was capable to adapt himself to the expectations of the Viennese court of the Habsburg Monarchy to build a significant career at the Hungarian Royal Chancellery as royal court secretary, royal councillor and calligrapher. He decorated various writing model books and charters for the Habsburg rulers as well as several letters of arms for Hungarian noblemen. However it is less known that the calligrapher made sepulchral inscriptions in stone as well applying a new technique of his time, the acid-etching. Emperor Ferdinand I commissioned him to prepare the Square Capitals for the marble cenotaph of Emperor Maximilian I in Innsbruck. Additionally, he used similar letters to inscribe the sepulchral monument of the highest ranking official of the Hungarian Kingdom, the Palatine Tamás Nádasdy and his wife, Orsolya Kanizsay in Léka (Lockenhaus).
After the Treaty of Passau (1552) the claim was established that after Emperor Charles V the member of the Austrian line of the Habsburg dynasty, Ferdinand I could have imperial power. The revival of the antiquity significantly influenced the rebuilding of his main residence, the Hofburg, the development of the Roman lapidaries and collections of antiquities at his court (Hermes Schallauzer, Wolfgang Lazius, Ferdinand I), and the style of festive decorations and artworks all’antica he commissioned during this era.
In 1562 Bocskay dedicated a writing model book to Ferdinand I in order to be commissioned to prepare the inscriptions of the sepulchral monument of Emperor Maximilian I. The manuscript included several writing samples in Square Capitals imitating the epigraphic monuments of the ancient Romans. Later he worked on the acid-etched and gilded inscriptions in Vienna in 1563–1568 according to the archival sources. He prepared inscribed marble plates for 24 marble reliefs of the cenotaph representing scenes of the life of Maximilian I as well as 18 plates of the sepulchral inscription on the frieze. The Latin texts were compiled by the vice-chancellor of Ferdinand I, Georg Sigmund Seld.
Bocskay was accommodated in the house of the Nádasdy family in Vienna. He probably equipped a workshop for the process there. He also prepared three more inscribed limestone plates for the sepulchral monument of the already mentioned Tamás Nádasdy and Orsolya Kanizsay. The marble cenotaph was erected in 1566 in the castle of Léka where the Palatine and later his wife were buried. The monument was transferred to the new family crypt of the Augustine monastery of Léka in the 17th century.

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Ars Hungarica / Tanulmányok Kelényi György tiszteletére [Studies in Honor of György Kelényi], 2013

Művészettörténeti Értesítő, 2022

Acta Historiae Artium, 2022