Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 90-91.(Budapest, 1999)
VARGA, LÍVIA: The Reconsideration of the Portrait Reliefs of King Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490), and Queen Beatrix of Aragon (1476-1508)
44. Architectural fragment of King Matthias' palace in Buda. Budapest, National Gallery 43. Garland with fruit and floral motives. Paris, Louvre in the royal court. The unusually high esteem which the king expressed for his work makes it more than probable that he was truly a person of importance. 60 It is unlikely that he was personally involved in the production of door and window frames, and other sculpted architectural elements. Rather the royal recognition and the high reward suggest that Giovanni Dalmata was the head of a workshop which executed designs created by himself. In this way, it is possible to explain why the same, very classicizing decorative motifs, which are also found on his Roman works appear again and again from the beginning of the 1480s both in Buda and Visegrád. The fact, however, that the technique by which these decorative elements are executed is divers, points to the hands of several well qualified, but differently trained sculptors who worked simultaneously in the same workshop. The details of the side panels of the Hercules Fountain in Visegrád and the material from Buda bear testimony to this conclusion. 61 Similarly, the above-mentioned fragments decorated with oak leaves and acorns displayed in the Hungarian National Gallery cannot be considered as Dalmata's own work, although the motifs themselves belong to his formal language. 6(1 Gerevich, L.. Art of Buda and Pest in the Middle Ages, Budapest 1971, pp. 113 IT. 61 Réti, M., Visegrád reneszánsz szobrászatának újabb kutatásai (New research on the Renaissance sculpture of Visegrád), in Művészettörténet Műemlékvédelem IV. Marler Miklós hetvenedik születésnapjára. Tanulmányok. Budapest 1993. pp. 219-237; Gerevich, L., Reflexion sur le château de Buda à l'époque du roi Matthias, Acta Históriáé Artium 1967. pp. 123-132; Idem, Art of Buda and Pest in the Middle Ages. Budapest 1971, pp. 113ff.
