Géfin Gyula: A szombathelyi székesegyház (Szombathely, 1946)
Képek jegyzéke
as e. g. on the pulpit, the altars, the confessionals, the stalls of the canons and in the decorations of the organ. The Ground-Plan of the Cathedral, (ill. 8.) The Church has the form of a Latin Cross with a longstretched upper sanctuary enclosure and has three altar bays on each side of the Nave-Measures; length 78 m, 80, width 38 m. height 27 m. 98, height of the towers 62 m, 50, accomodation for 5000 persons. The exterior of the Cathedral, (ill. 9—13.) The lower part of the facade, flanked by two slender steeples, is interrupted by four powerful Toscan columns, the upper part by four ionic ones and crowned by a Triangular gable. In the storey-high niches there are the statues of St. John the Baptist and of Mózes and on the gable we see the statues of St. Peter and St. Paul and above them the allegorical figures of Faith, Hope and Charity. In the execution of the spire Anreith altered Hefele's designs, and in 1871 the steeples were still more simplified, but lengthened by one meter, (ill, 11.) The Interior of the Cathedral, (ill. 14—15.) ,,The interior of the Church has a simply over-powering effect. In contrast to the complicated constructions of the last period of the baroque art Hefele created, with a skilful division of the space, a wonderful wide longhouse building with transepts and a central cupola. Mighty pillars bear the powerful architrave. The dimensions of the interior have a gigantic effect, and nevertheless there ,is such fluent elegance therein, and the mighty material, the rose-coloured marble and the rich gildings pour forth such fascinating harmony to which three masterful paintings lend a brighter hue, so that everybody, who enters the Church the first time feels a blithful awe such as only real art can emanate." (Rudolf Guby.) The organ with 40 registers is the workmanship of Ignatz Kober. The vault above it is decorated with the picture of the Immaculate Conception by Anthony Spreng. The roof-painting of the Nave (ill. 16.) represents the Birth of Mary and showes prototypes of the Old Testament. They are the work of the Viennese academical painter Anthony Spreng. On the cornice of the Nave there are the statues of the four great Prophets by Prokop. The picture of the first Bay-Altar on the north side of 208
