Gál Éva: Margaret Island - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

stone are the likenesses of writers and poets Endre Ady, Zoltán Ambrus, Bálint Balassi, Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, Andor Gábor, Mór Jókai, Attila József, József Katona, Imre Madách, Kálmán Mikszáth, Zsigmond Móricz, Sándor Petőfi, Miklós Radnóti, Mihály Táncsics, Mihály Tompa and Mihály Vörösmarty; painters, sculptors and architects Miklós Barabás, Fülöp Ö. Beck, Gyula Derkovits, István Ferenczy, Károly Ferenczy, Miklós Izsó, Károly Kernstock, Ödön Lechner, Ferenc Medgyessy, Mihály Munkácsy, Gyula Rudnay, Alajos Stróbl, István Szőnyi, Miklós Ybl, Mihály Zichy; while further busts include those of art historian Károly Lyka, composers Ferenc Liszt, Ferenc Erkel, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, actress Mrs Déry and the musician János Bihari.

It should be mentioned that as we proceed further south, we find two sculptures that were set up in earlier times: one is a bust of János Arany, the other, in a southeasterly direction, the 1939 sculpture of Mihály Tompa, another leading poet of the nineteenth century.

Before we have an opportunity of taking a look at all the

Statues in the park

49