Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 2004. A Kulturális Örökségvédelmi Hivatal tájékoztatója (Budapest, 2004)

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is everything necessary to identify style and iconography István Gróh made newer watercolour copies in 1905 representing the fresco cycles most beautiful and best preserved scenes, so they did not mean more than the documenting importance of the Sztehlo copies. Their importance lays in the fine details and the exactness of the colours. This way we can have a relatively authentic state of the frieze of apostles and the Birth of Christ scene. The copy of the fragmentary Death of St. Paul the Hermit scene has the greatest importance. The Gróh copies close a period of the discovery of the church and copying its frescoes. It can be stated that an unusual amount and quality of documents were made, with the help of which the today unidentifiably destroyed scenes can be reconstructed. The rich literature dealing with the frescoes misses them or they are only partly known. The description of the frescoes was published by the Romanian art historian Anca Bratu in 1985, but without the knowledge of the copies, so it contained a lot of mistakes.