Török Gyöngyi: Gothic Panel Paintings and Wood Carvings in Hungary, Permanent exhibition of the Hungarian National Gallery (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2005/3)

Ground-floor - Rooms 1-5

The third room is predominated by paintings that attest to Polish contacts in the mid-15th century. In the middle, there are two huge wings of the high altar from Liptószentmária with the typical triangular gables; the centrepiece is missing. Although the altar was presumably made after the middle of the 15th century, the style of the lyrical and ideally elongated figures proves that the artistic tendencies of the first half of the century lived on side by side with the emerging more realistic endeavours. The Virgins of Liptónádasd and Bánfa, also in line with Polish efforts, were separate devotional images, their frames adorned with relic-holding cases. These votive pictures of the Virgin - latter-day descendants of the Byzantine icons - enjoyed greatest popularity during the International Gothic, but their fashion lived on in Hungary and Poland in the second hall of the 15th century as well. The tight art-geographical connections between Upper Hungary and Little Poland south of Krakow - neighbouring areas in the Middle Ages - are proven by a small triptych of the Virgin from Liptószentmária. two altar wings from Berzenke and the Lamentation from Turdossin. all from around la50-6u, as well as by 12. The Gothic exhibition with the reconstruction of the former high altar of the church of the Virgin Man" in Liptószentmária