Prohászka László: Equestrian Statues - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1997)

The copy of the St. George statue in Prague

seum since 1967. The carved limestone base of the copy in Budapest, whose style fits the statue better than that of the pedestal in Prague, was made by architect Kálmán Lux. There are several copies of the reproduction, with one kept in the Epreskert on Bajza utca, which is part of the Budapest College of Fine Arts, one in Kolozsvár and one sent to Szeged in 1939.

The first decade of the twentieth century was a golden age of Hungarian public sculpture. It was then that a whole range of impressive monuments were erected with numerous equestrian statues among them. Several magnificent public buildings were erected to add to the glamour of the 1896 Millenary Celebrations, which marked the 1000th anniversary of the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian Basin. One of these was the Palace of Justice, or Kúria (which today houses the Museum of Ethnography), built between 1893 and 1896 in what is now Kossuth tér. It was on top of this building, designed in the style of Historicism by Alajos Hauszmann, above the tympanum that a beautiful three-horse battle-cart sculpted by Károly

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