H. Kolba Judit szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum Guide 2 - From the Foundation of the State until the Expulsion of the Ottomans - The history of Hungary in the 11th to 17th centuries (Budapest, 2005)

ROOM 6 - Hungary Split into Three Parts. The Ottoman Occupation (second half of the 16th century-17th century) (Ibolya Gerelyes)

47. Stall from the Nyírbátor Church of the Franciscans, 1511 Hungarian, who executed it was acquainted Renaissance art in the country. We know with the Florentine Madonnas. The early about the sumptuous interiors of rooms, ofRenaissance choir-stalls made in 1511, to- ten with wooden ceilings, from descripgether with the pendant kept in the Nyír- tions, but the choir-stalls in themselves bátor Museum, represent even in their in- give an idea of the high technical level and complete state the high level of the art of artistic richnesss of the Early Renaissance. Hungarian cabinetmakers (Fig. 47). During The relief carving covering the surface is rethe 15th century artistic furniture came to lated to architectural decoration. The bookHungary in great quantity from the home- case still-life work on the backs (the soland of marquetry, Tuscany and northern called dorsals) shows the penchant of the Italy. Italian masters active in Hungary Renaissance for trompe-V-oeil decoration, played an important role in spreading and the symmetrical vase, the candelabrum