Koppány Tibor: A Balaton környékének műemlékei (Művészettörténet - műemlékvédelem 3 Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatal, 1993)

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Pécsely and the castle near Kereki were built with Gothic forms, but only ruins can be seen today. The only church dating back to the end of the 14th century around Lake Balaton stands in Keszthely; this originally belonged to a Franciscan convent. The entire surface of the chancel of the elegant intererior is decorated with wall-paintings depicting scenes of the life of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary, of which only fragments remain. The first half of the 15th century saw the reign of King Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387-1437), later Holy Roman emperor, this marked a calmer period, and gave architecture ample opportunity to prosper. The major constructions were in Veszprém, where the walls and towers of the castle were built between 1412-1424 by the papal legate Cardinal Branda Castiglione, incumbent of the episcopal benefice, later patron of Masolino. In the 1460-1470's, as early as during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490), it was the humanistically cultured Bishop Albert Vetési who studied in Italy, who built. In 1467 he renovated the chapel with polygonal ground plan, located on the north side of the cathedral replacing an 11th century rotund to be his own burial-place. About 1470 he restored the cathedral itself. On basis of his coat of arms he is also credited with building in Sümeg castle. The other significant builder of this age was King Matthias's commander Pál Kinizsi. In 1472 he was presented with the Nagyvázsony castle that was erected hardly earlier than one or two decades, he further built on this. He founded a Pauline Cloister in 1480 near the castle, which had a large-sized, late Gothic church covered with net-vaulting. Further works of the building workshop that set up the cloister and the church, can be found on the Northern shore of Lake Balaton in many places. The nearest one is the Nagyvázsony late Gothic church, originating from the reconstruction of the 13th century village-church under the castle, with costly provincial Baroque interior Baroque furnishings. Farther away in Salföld he rebuilt the Pauline Cloister, in Karmacs and Zalaszántó the parish churches, applying the same net-vaulting everywhere. Late Gothic details were added to village churches in many places. Tabernacles and baptismal fonts can be found, though damaged, in Berhida and Vörösberény churches. Similar ones have turned up in Balatonfüred, near Aszófő, in the decayed village Kövesd, as well as the aforementioned St. Balázs Church over Balatoncsicsó excavations. From this era much data exists even about the dwelling houses of the villages, partly from written sources, partly from excavations. The peasant houses of the one-time village Sarvaly near Sümeg containing 2 or 3 rooms, built of carved wooden beams, built on stone foundations, which were excavated represent the typical Hungarian woodland houses. Similarly, typical dwelling houses of the nobility are represented by the three-roomed stone-houses having usually a cellar, such as were discovered in the decayed village of Csepely, near Nagyvázsony, and from the Vilonya parish house rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century. Some examples of this can be seen in Alsóörs even today. About the Balaton country's fortified noble houses, the castles originating from the turn of the 16th century merely charter-data tell, and though the place of most of them is well-known, they haven't been excavated yet. There stood such castles in