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 7 - Transylvania and Royal Hungary (second half of the 16th century-17th century) (Judit H. Kolba)

65. Pendant, 17th century 66. Summoning tablet of the guild of the Brassó (Brasov) silversmiths, 1556 jugs, plates, spice containers (Fig. 67) and even stove tiles. Haban ware was the display pottery of noble households. In the interiors of aristocratic and bourgeois homes stoves with many-coloured glazes had a prominent place. The tiles were decorated with artistic friezes and painted flowers. The stove exhibited comes from the Liptónádasd (Trstené) manorhouse of the Baán family, and is a masterpiece of Haban stovemakers from northern Hungary from the first third of the 17th century (Fig. 68). It was executed on a dark blue background with a white tin glaze, decorated with tulips and large leaves, the frieze is of tiles showing grapes and Sirens. MIKLÓS ZPJNYI, POET AND MILITARY LEADER (1620-1664) Count Miklós Zrínyi, great-grandson of the hero of Szigetvár of the same name, scion of one of the richest aristocratic families, and lord of Csáktornya, was the greatest Hungarian military leader and poet of the century. With farsightedness he perceived that the time for expelling the weakened Turks had arrived. He was also aware of the notion that in this struggle the Hungarians also had to take part. "Arms, arms, arms are what we need, and the setting of a good, heroic example": this is the basic notion of his great work Remedy for the Turkish Opium. As a soldier well versed in the art of war, he gallantly took his part in the antiTurkish struggle: in his winter campaign begun in 1664 his troops burnt the Drava bridge at Eszék (Osijek), which made him famous throughout Europe. At the siege of Kanizsa, though, he did not receive sufficient help from the supreme command in Vienna and he had even to surrender New Zrínyi vár, which he himself had built. In the Treaty of Vasvár of 1664 the Viennese government made a shameful bargain: it acknowledged the Turkish gains made be-