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

late fifties - each bears the marks of Historicism. The reliefs are narrative, rather than dominant, features of the monument, whose most emphatic elements are the above- mentioned equestrian statues.

Statute No. viii of 1896, the law decreeing that a Millenary Monument be erected, also ruled that, besides building another seven millenary monuments to be erected in the territory of Hungary, a Museum of Fine Arts and four hundred provincial elementary schools, the nation “will erect, by the coronation church named after Our Lady, by the Fishermen’s Bastion in Budapest, an equestrian statue of our King St. István."

Dispensing with a formal competition, the authorities invited Alajos Stróbl, one of the most distinguished nineThe Magyar leaders with the statue of Peace

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