Mikó Árpád szerk.: Reneissance year 2008 (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2008/1)

PÉTER FARBAKY, ÁRPÁD MIKO, ENIKŐ SPEKNER, KORNÉL SZOVÁK, ISTVÁN TRINGLI, ANDRÁS VÉGH: Matthias Corvinus, the King. Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Royal Court, 1458-1490

Péter Farbaky, Árpád Mikó, Enikő Spekner, Kornél Szovák, István Tringli, András Vég\i Matthias Corvinus, the King Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Royal Court (1458-1490) The Legacy of Sigismund Sigismund of Luxemburg reigned longer than almost any other Hungarian ruler. He took the Hungarian throne in 1387 and added the titles King of Germany (141 1), King of Bohemia (1420) and Holy Roman Emperor (1433) before his death in 1437. His memory was subsequently held in great reverence in the Empire. Several dozen paintings depict him as the ideal emperor, and he was regarded as one of the great historic rulers, mentioned alongside Charlemagne and Otto the Great. Memories of Sigismund among the Germans were all the fonder for the failure of a worthy successor to emerge tor several decades. In the Hungarian historical consciousness, however, the image of Sigismund was much less favourable. It was during his rule that the Ottoman intrusions started, the Hussites captured entire towns, and the Angevin-friendly families who had been close to King Charles II and Ladislas King of Naples never forgot how he dealt with his opponents. Matthias' Hungarian historian János Thuróczy also propagated this none-too-friendly account. Nonetheless, the name of King Sigismund was still equivalent to the memory of the good old days long after Head of a king, fragment of a gothic sculpture from the Royal Castle of Buda Budapest, Budapesti Történeti Múzeum