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disappointed, for although the female saint figures in the Buda programme are of a comparable size, there is little apart from perceived similarities in passages of drapery to suggest common authorship. 24 Indeed, whereas the Eger is wearing contemporary dress, the female figures at Buda, as Eva Kovács has noted, display a "conspicuous lack of contemporary fashion". 25 None of the other female figures of a similar size to the Eger St Catherine featured at the 2006 Sigismund exhibition offer many grounds for comparison for the same reason. 26 Instead, it is a figure of a kneeling donor figure (Sopron, Benedictine Church) displayed at the Sigismund exhibition, and the similarity of the contemporary clothes he wears with those worn by the figure of Maxentius, which opens a potentially more rewarding avenue of investigation. 27 The Sopron figure, dated to Plate 4. Figure of Maxentius (István Dobó Castle Museum, Eger KK 99.1.1-2) /photo Eva Lónyai/ с. 1370-1390 on account of the belief that the figure represents Miklós Gaissel, a leading member of the family that founded the church in which the figure is situated, resembles the Eger Maxentius in wearing a short red cape, with large buttons going down the front, a wide belt 24 The headless female figure (Budapest, Történeti Múzeum, 75.1.32), which was included in the Sigismund exhibition, offering perhaps the best point of comparison. 25 KOVÁCS Éva in ВЕКЕ László-MAROSI Ernő-WEHLI Tünde (eds) 1987. 226., 240. The jewellery worn by the male figures, however, is carved in great detail. 26 For example: the figure of St Helen (Bratislava, Slovenská národná galéria), the headless female figure (Sibiu, Muzeul National Brukenthal, M 5977) and figure of the Virgin Mary from an Annunciation scene (Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie Galerie Liebighaus - Museum alter Plastik, St.P.394) attributed to the Großlobming Master. 27 BARTOS György in TAKÁCS Imre (ed.) 2006. 561. Plate 3. Kneeling donor figure (Sopron, Benedictine Church) 770
