Voit Pál: Barokk tervek és vázlatok (1650-1760) (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 1980)

Aprili. The group of masters who worked under Giovanni Battista Ricca's leadership left no document of their work except a single, very elegant drawing made by Domenico Ricca himself. It is a plan of a portal with a balcony of the residence of the family Orczy, previously owned by general Sámuel Haller in Gyöngyös (Cat. No. 87.). The unknown master, author of the plan for St. Andrew's church, formerly Jesuit church in Komárom, might have broken away from that group (Cat. No. 89.). The activity of two noted architects from Vienna left abiding impact on Hungarian architecture. The first is Franz Anton Hillebrandt, architect of Chamber, later chief architect, and finally imperial chief architect, whose name has already been mentioned in connection with the extension of the cathedral of Nagyvárad. A great part of his activity exceeds our age limit of 1760. He and Jakab Fellner succeeded the other very influential architect Franz Anton Pilgram in Hungary. Thanks to the Hungarian Museum of Architecture his first, so far unpublished plan of an apartment house, from 1758, can be shown here. The building is identical with the Dietrichstein palace in Vienna (Cat. No. 88.). The interior series from 1758, made for the Grassalkovich castle in Gödöllő belongs to the highest quality of plans (Cat. Nos. 103—105.). Antal Grassalkovich was Chief Chamberlain, the supervisor of the building works of the Royal Palace of Buda. The obvious, close similarity of the Royal Palace and his own palace in Gödöllő indicates that he engaged the same masters at both works. Thus the builder of the Royal Palace in Buda — from 1749 on — was identical with the architect of Gödöllő. The elegant corner room, with marble panelling of the Gödöllő castle, where, according to traditions Mary Theresa stayed in 1751, was considered as the work after the plan of Jean Nicolas Jadot, designer of the Buda Palace. In 1753, when Jadot left Vienna, he gave the plans of the Royal Palace in Buda to his successor Nicolas Pacassi. As in the late 60s Hillebrandt was commissioned to complete the building work on the palace former research attributed greater role to him than he actually had. It has been revealed that whereas the architect of the palace was Jadot, the interiors were designed by Pacassi, and he should be regarded as the designer of the enfilade interiors of the row of halls. Former descriptions and surveys prove that is was the same ornamental style of restrained splendour, formed of whitegolden panneaux, that decorate the Schönbrunn Palace and the Burg in Vienna. Consequently recent researchers rightly attribute the Gödöllő-plans to Pacassi. Grassalkovich' direct subordonate, leading architect of the Building Office of the Hungarian Chamber Franz Anton Hillebrandt worked later on the Gödöllő Castle too. He was the architect ot the Grassalkovich Castle in Pozsony the same way. The series of plans of the Haruckern Palace of Gyula have survived in copies made by Joseph Hillebrand, draughtsman of the Chamber. On the plans of the front elevation the marks of F. A. Hillebrandt's style can be traced (Cat. No. 106.). Another very influential Viennese architect, whose plans for the Cistercian Abbey of Szentgotthárd had already been mentioned, was Franz Anton Pilgram. His later plans as well as copies of his plans and surveys of his works are shown at the exhibition. The plan of the upper floor of count Széchenyi's Palace in Nagycenk, with its rational arrangement and intimately connected rooms, display the domain of the moderate way of life in which the Hungarian aristocratic medium landowners lived (Cat. No. 113.). The plan of the counts Károlyi's summer-house in Wieden, Vienna (Cat. No. 110.) and other designs for the Károlyi's to unknown places (Cat. Nos. 86, 111—112.), as well as the monumental plan series for the cathedral of Vác are his handiworks (Cat. Nos. 114—120.). The altars of the church, the frames of doors and windows, the architectural details prove his conscientious and virtuosic drawing technique, the bold constructions show him as an excellent structural engineer. The perspective view of the cathedral and its environs with the bishop's palace, row of canons' houses, the buildings of the seminary and Piarist