Rózsa György: The Palace of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

II. The building

windows the baluster railing of the main facade continues. The ground floor windows are lower than those of the main facade; above them open the small square windows of the service flats of the mezzanine. The second floor windows are also paired. The statues of Descartes and Leibniz stand at the corners. The facade facing the Danube has 13 axes. The three larger central windows, positioned corresponding to the conference room for weekly sessions are accentuated by four rusticated wall pilasters. On the second floor there are statues above the columns. The windows of the side facades alternate with Corinthian wall pilasters on both floors. The first floor windows are also decorated with a row of balusters. The balustered attic with candelabra at its corners appears here, too, like on the Akadémia Street facade. The terracotta statues of Newton and Raffaello stood at the second floor corners, but the latter, damaged during World War II, had to be replaced with the statue of Lomonosov by Gyula Palotai (1911 — 1976). * The allegorical figures representing the sciences on the second floor of the Danube side facade and on the third floor of the main facade are the following, from left to right: Archaeologia, Poesis, Cosmographia, Politica - Jurisprudentia, História, Physiographia, Mathematica, Philosophia and Philologia (Archaeology, Poetry, Geography, Politics — Jurisprudence, History, Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Philosophy, Philology). Of the original statues that of Miklós Révai was carved by Miklós Izsó; the rest by the Ernst March Co. of Charlottenburg of terracotta using the models produced by Emil Wolf (1802—1879), a student ofThorwaldsen, and other German sculptors. The allegorical statues and ornamental details of the facades are replicas, some used to decorate other buildings as well. The palace was built of brick, only the facade is stonework. The pedestal was made of Hungarian red marble, the ornaments of Siklós and Bükkösd marble. Besides clerks of works József Diescher and Izsó, the following Hungarian masters took part in the masonry work and the marble cutting: László Halász (about 1820 — about 1882), János Marschalkó (1819-1877), János Kauser (1817-?), Antal Gerenday (1818—1887), Lajos Hofhauser, Vencel Szlavek, József Kehlendorfer, I. Vogl, and Opnich, the stone mason of Trieste. * 13