Cserhalmi Zoltán - Kelemen István: Arrabona - Regionális Tudományos Évkönyv 57. (Győr, 2019)
Tanulmányok - Jékely Zsombor: A győri Jézus-születése kárpit
I *ARRABONA 2019. 57. TANULMÁNYOK The “Nativity” tapestry of Győr The central theme of the most beautiful Pre-Renaissance tapestry of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest is the Nativity that offers such a late medieval type of representation where the new-born Saviour laying on the ground is adored by Holy Mary and angels. The exact parallel of this tapestry can be found in the Museo Diocesano of Trento as the first piece of a seven-piece series demonstrating mainly the Passion of Christ. The relevant tapestry, which is kept in Budapest today, was put in the highlight from the Cathedral of Győr in 1889 and it can surely be identified as one of the five or six tapestries that - according to our sources - had been taken to the Cathedral as part of the heritage of Demeter Naprághy in 1619. The tapestry was bought by Emperor and King Francis Joseph I in 1904, who presented it to the Association of Museum Friends and they gave it to the Museum of Hungarian Applied Arts as a permanent deposit in 1914. The present study aims to identify the designer of the tapestry as Jan van Roome of Brussels, while on the other hand, it also tries to reconstruct the history of the object at the beginning of the 17th century in the light of the available sources. Zsombor Jékely 112
