Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - ERNŐ MAROSI: Sigismundus Rex et Imperator: Art and Culture During the Time of Sigismund of Luxemburg, 1387-1437
6 INTERIOR VIEW OF THE EXHIBITION especially the activity of artists who left their home during the Hussite wars. A rich collection represented the connections in the 1420s and 1430s with Vienna, with artworks commissioned from Vienna as well as the works of Viennese masters and their impact on the artists from the Western part of Upper Hungary. An equally valuable material outlined the Vienna painting tradition, which was independent from Prague (especially the art of the Heiligenkreuz Master). This approach was the most valuable when it was possible to reconstruct the context of artworks originally belonging together. Thus the small Annuntiatio panel painting from the Jankovich collection in the Museum of Fine Arts was placed next to the other half of the diptych, the one with the death of Mary from Nuremberg (a comparison which made appalling the restoration work of the Budapest piece). This pairing also inspired Maria Bartlova's surprising hypothesis that the diptych must have been painted when its painter from Prague was in Budapest in the 1420's. In the same way the central part of the small triptych reliquary from Kosice found its two wings kept in the Hungarian National Gallery. An important part of this section was the display of some selected works of stone sculpture: artworks from the Franciscan church of Kosice, statues from the entrance of the Church of Saint Mark in Zagreb and the much debated statute of Saint Helena from Nagyszombat / Trnava (believed to be originating from Vienna but ostensibly claimed to be from Prague). This show gave the possibility to study the fascinating Pietà of the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu. In connection to this work a hypothesis w r as formulated about Buda as its possible provenance, just as in the case of several other statues since the excavation in 1974 brought to light the Buda sculptures from the time of
