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

GOTHIC PANEL PAINTINGS AND WOOD CARVINGS IN Fi.UNG AR V The most significant single group of art works in the Old Hungarian Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery consists of 15th-l6th century winged altarpieces. as well as panel paintings and wood carvings. With a few exceptions, the latter were also used to decorate winged altarpieces. Painting from the age of the Árpád Dynasty (11-13 c.) is preserved in church frescoes and manuscript illuminations. In the Romanesque era. sculpture was closely related to architecture. The earliest known wood sculptures from the territory of medieval Hungary date from the 13th century, but there are comparatively few extant relics from that period and the material surviving from the later Middle Ages is also highly fragmentary. It must be borne in mind that the adverse historical circumstances, the Ottoman occupation. Protestant iconoclasm. and later the change in tastes against what was medieval resulted in the destruction of many of our old pictures and statues. Although the written sources