Szabadfalvi József: A megyaszói festett asztalosmunkák 1735-ből (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 9. Miskolc, 1980)

are usually painted in cuproxide green, sometimes also in ultramarine blue. The blue and the green are to be found in other ornaments, e.g. in flowers too. The following shades of the red are used: brick-red and in some cases a shade between the carmine and the deep brown. The ornaments painted in vermilion or carmine are rare. Yellow, most often ochre, is used only for flowers. Black and white are first of all used to underline the plasticity of the ornaments. The most common motive of the floral ornament is the tulipe. Its varieties are presented in the 4th picture. The most simple three-petalled, renaissance form is to be found as well as the most complex solutions. The roses, or rosettes (p. 5.), flowers reminding of lily (p. 6.), pomegranate (e. g. pi. 29, 41) and carnation (pi. 17, 30, 36, and p. 8) are also frequent. On the ceiling of the Megyaszó church at the meeting point of the four boards there were small four-lobed rosettes placed (p. 9—10). 39 whole and 4 half of these rosettes have been preserved. The colour of the rosettes is varied, the stylized floral patterns in blue, red and black are painted on the white prime colour. 10 of the gallery boards of the Megyaszó church are to be found in the Herman Ottó Museum (pi. 62—71). These boards end in a semicircle at their top, and they are somewhat longer than the square-formed ceiling boards. The ornaments of the gallery boards are similar to the other ones, they seem to have also been made in 1735 by the same masters. The sounding board of the church is also in the museum (p. 12). At its bottom the followings can be read: „Készült 1704-dik Esztendőben — Megújíttatott 1800-ik Esztendőben Asztalos Maist Bedé Pál által" (Made in the year 1704 — Renewed in the year 1800 by Joiner Master Pál Bede). After the oil-paint put on in 1800 had been removed the nice original painting from 1704 came to light (pi. 74). It contained the following lines: Isten Ditsőségére Tsináltatta Superla(tal) Mészáros Márton Diák Medgyaszszai Ecclaesiának. Anno D. 1704" (Superlatal Mészáros Márton Diák had it made for the congregation of Megyaszó to the glory of God. Anno D. 1704). In Hungary the painted ceiling boards can be found first of all in church edificies, sometimes also in castles and in houses from the 15th c. on. They flourished between the end of the 17th c. and the first half of the 19th c. The Megyaszó boards, in regard of their painted ornaments, occupy a prominent place among them. The painted church furniture influenced the painted furniture and consequently also the Hungarian folk art. 55