Tóth Vilmos: Funeral Art - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2006)

Funeral Arts in the 19th Century

symbolically-charged ornamentation and a calligraphically as well as thematically remarkable epitaph. The use of elaborate symbolism made the tombstones of the period fairly consistent in appearance across religious denominations. Mostly made by master builders and stonemasons, these headstones were the products of the craftsman system-, although they were not industrially manufactured clichés, even the more impressive ones lacked the uniqueness of a genuine artwork. One exception is the huge, beautifully carved urn made around 1810 for the tomb of József Alvinczy, the eponym of Víziváros (or Alvinczy) Military Cemetery (K 17/1) or, standing now next to the former, the Neo-gothic Mayer Monument (K17/1), a sepulchre made around 1857, and subsequently transferred to Kerepesi űt Cemetery from the Civilian Cemetery of Víziváros. Besides such extraordinary pieces, some typical tombstones of the old Buda graveyards were also transferred first to Németvölgyi Ceme10

Anonymous master: the sepulchre oh Baron József Alvinczy