Gerle János: Palaces of Money - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

Original title: A pénz palotái Translation: Ákos Farkas Archive photographs are from the Budapest History Museum (Kiscell), the Hild-Ybl Foundation, the Hungarian Museum of Architecture, the collections of the Budapest Ervin Szabó Library and from contemporary journals and magazines. Colour photos by Tibor Zsitva On the cover: The god Mercury on the stained glass window of the General Credit Bank of Hungary (created by Miksa Róth after designs by Géza Maróti) On the title-page: Ignác Alpár as a mediaeval master builder representing architecture in the company of the allegories of sculpture and painting. Relief by Károly Senyei on the facade of the Austro-Hungarian Bank (Hungarian National Bank) © János Gerle, 1994 ISSN 1215 8909 ISBN 963 8376 41 4

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