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Yesterday was the birthday of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Croatia. His library, the Bibliotheca Corviniana, was one of the largest libraries in medieval Europe. More than 200 works from the library are known to be extant today, and have been cataloged as one of our Legacy Libraries. 💙📚

Dutch investigators and international police are searching for four gold pieces of jewelry stolen in a heist at the Drents Museum in Assen last weekend.

Thanks for following and welcome all new followers! However, does anyone see what I post? Take a look at my blog, there is some good stuff there from around 1500!

In my last blog post of the year, I report on the sensational finds made in 2024 during the excavations of the Franciscan church of Visegrád - Vaulting by Anton Pilgram, marble carvings by Benedetto da Maiano... jekely.blogspot.com/2024/12/sens...

Please take a look at my brief review of a highly important new book about the origins of Gothic art in medieval Hungary: jekely.blogspot.com/2024/12/revi...

Hi new followers & new bluesky members: Here's a starter pack for those interested in medieval and early modern #art 🎨 Let me know if I've missed/forgotten someone, or if you want me to remove you from the list. #medievalsky #earlymodern #histsci #skystorians #arthistory 🗃️ 🏛️ go.bsky.app/PtdynT4

Tomorrow I will present the English translation of the monograph by Imre Takács, titled The Arrival of French Gothic in Hungary.

Getting ready for a conference on military history of medieval Hungary at the University of Debrecen next week. I will talk about the representations of King and Emperor Sigismund in late medieval chronicle illustrations. memhung.hu/13318-2/

The Festschrift for Markus Hörsch by GWZO is open access, and full of interesting studies on late medieval art in Central Europe - verlag.sandstein.de/detailview?n...

An overview of the summer university course on heritage protection organized each year in Transylvania: jekely.blogspot.com/2024/08/szas...

Dear friends and followers, please consider taking a look at this worthy cause on Kickstarter - Check out English as a Second Language Videos for Kids! by Lara Strong www.kickstarter.com/projects/lar...

I am pleased to announce that my Smarthistory essay on the Bakócz Chapel in Esztergom was published today - part of a new section dedicated to Central and Eastern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. More to come! smarthistory.org/bakocz-chapel/

Go and get it (or at least have a look): The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300-1600 is now out! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

I am getting a kick out of teaching early medieval art for the first time to my BA students! So much good stuff and such good online resources, including the online exhibition of the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai. stcatherines.mused.org/en/

The newly refurnished Wien Museum is now open - I found the permanent exhibition to be very busy, labyrinth-like, and crowded during the holiday season (it's free to visit). Nevertheless, it was great to see some of my favorite Viennese objects, the museum is highly recommended! www.wienmuseum.at

Coming up in two days: a conference commemorating Arnold Ipolyi, one of the founders of art historical studies in Hungary. I will speak about his patronage at Besztercebánya (Banská Bystrica), where he was bishop between 1872-1886 mrmt.hu/esemeny/emle...

Getting ready for my first visit to the Rijksmuseum since 1993. Any hints, tips? #rijksmuseum #amsterdam

DELIGHTED to advertise this PhD scholarship: Looking for an excellent art historian interested in medieval paintings + death + judgment to work with Dr Niamh Bhalla (NorthEastern Univ London) and Dr Emily Guerry (MEMS) ⏰ Deadline 31 Oct 🙏 Share widely 🎓Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDF025/p...

I haven't been very busy updating my blog this year, but if you are interested in the history of art in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary, you may want to have a look at some of the posts over there: jekely.blogspot.com

Nice day and long night of museums in Vienna - perfect for the Raphael tapestries and some Michelangelo drawings!

Astonishing find: looted from Ethiopia by an agent of the British Museum, stashed in a Portuguese bank vault www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/25/e... 🗃

I will start on this new platform by calling attention to the website and database of the Thesaurus Mediaevalis research group, dedicated to cataloging architectural carvings from the territory of medieval Hungary. thesaurusmediaevalis.hu/en/home-2/

Hurray, I have my first follower! You may know me from the now cursed site X, where I tweeted a lot about medieval art, mainly from the Kingdom of Hungary. Let's see how this goes!