Koppány Tibor: A Balaton környékének műemlékei (Művészettörténet - műemlékvédelem 3 Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatal, 1993)

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extension of the Franciscan church and cloister in Sümeg, and their Baroque furrűshings and decoration. Bishop of Veszprém Ádám Acsády (1725-1744) stood behind these constructions, who reorganized the operation of the Catholic Church around the lake. Many of the Baroque artists and masters participating in the reconstruction-work are well-known. The architect of the Veszprém episcopal cathedral, the Tihany Benedectine monastery and the Sümeg Franciscan residence was Carmelite Friar Martin Wittwer. The cathedral's luxuriant interior painting which has since decayed, was made by the Viennese Antonio Galli Bibiena, the Tihany monastery's painter was Ambrogio Dornetti. The carver of the Tihany Abbey's costly interior furnishings was Benedectine Friar Sebastian Stuhlhof, the Sümeg's Franz Richter, a Carmelite. As the enumerated names also demonstrate, the 18th century masters came from Austrian, Czech and Moravian territories, but most of them however from Vienna because the destructions of 150 years left no experts on building issues on the Balaton region, similarly to most places in Hungary. High patron of the Baroque art round the lake was Bishop of Veszprém Márton Padányi (1745-1762), the most outstanding Hungarian builder of the mid 18th century. Similarly to his predecessors who dwelt in Sümeg he also chose this little town as his seat, and from the small structures that stood there, he had the present-day castle, the new parish church, numerous dwelling-houses and farm-buildings built. He invited the Viennese Franz Anton Maulbertsch Jr. to paint the interior of the new church. With Sümeg as a seat, he organized an independent episcopal office, and in his extensive diocese he had several hundred churches, rectories, schools and farm-buildings raised, by the masters living there. His chief master stonemason, Paul Mojser built new churches cooperating with master-carpenter Dávid Reiter, stonecarvers Tamás Walch and Ferenc Schmidt and stone-carver Antal Kacher and many other masters, of the Balaton region, near Sümeg in Alsópáhok Kővágóőrs, Monostorapáti, Tapolca and Balatonszabadi. Besides Bishop Márton Padányi Biró, the members of his collegiate, namely István Lenthy and Canon Károly Esterházy, who later became Bishop of Eger, had their palaces built in the Veszprém castle, and they were the founders of many village churches, too. Esterházy as a bishop, had the churches erected in the Balaton region, in Balatonarács, Hidegkút, Kővágóórs, Szentbékkála and Vigántpetend. In addition to Sümeg the town of Keszthely was the other architectural and artistic center, the seat of the big landowner Festetics family. Here, with the start of castle building in 1745, began to develop a domanial building organization, led by architect Christoph Hofstadter from Loringian origin, between 1751-1783. The quarries, wich had been worked since the Middle Ages, facilitated the formation of a group of sculptors and stone-carvers, who together with the stone-masons and carpenters, gathering round Hofstadter, formed the first significant building guild in the Balaton region. From this time on until the second half of the 19th century the Keszthely masters left their marks on the constructions of this region, the most outstanding of which is the church of Balatonkeresztúr painted by an unknown master. Moreover, minor centers operated in Nagyvázsony, the domanial seat of the Zichy counts, and obviously in Veszprém, too. Baroque castles were erected on the seats of the big landowner and gentrynobility,