Tóth Vilmos: Funeral Art - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2006)

Funeral Art in the Second Half of the 20th Century

the grave of Amerigo Tot himself (F i); a variant without a throne was set up as a side-figure of a composition centring on the figure of King Matthias in Székesfehérvár. The best-known work of Melocco’s is undoubtedly the much- criticised funeral monument of József Antall unveiled in 1999 (K 28), but the most significant is his series of Ady sculptures, any one of which can be regarded as a model for a funeral monument - a hypothesis repeatedly confirmed by the artist himself and - and could in fact be set up as a more fitting monument to the great poet than the above-mentioned tombstone by Csorba.

The majority of the funeral monuments made by Jenő Szervátiusz stand in his native Transylvania exemplifying how close he felt to the genre. After he settled down in present-day Hungary, the artist designed fewer funeral pieces. Mentioned of these should be the tombstone made for Mrs. Mihály Czmor

■ Tibor Szervdtiuiz: the tomb oh Láizló Nagy

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