Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

1. Two limestone statues by Hutterer from 1876 (Hunyadi) and 1877 on both ends. These statues were made on request of archbishop Simor János.
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   1. Dénes Szécsi (Dionysius de Szech)
      (Grad / Felsőlendva c. 1410 - Esztergom 1465), archbishop of Esztergom

      DIONYSIUM CARD. de SZéCH PRIMATEM HUNGARIAE posuit JOANNES CARD. SIMOR a. mdccclxxvii

      Signed: Hutterer J.

   2. Hunyadi János
      Ioannes Corvinus or de Hunyad (c. 1407- 1456), leading Hungarian military and political figure in the 15th-century history of Central and Southeastern Europe. Father of King Matthias I of Hungary (Wikipedia).

      JOANNEM de HUNYAD gubernatorem hungariae posuit joannes card. simor a. mdccclxxvi

      Signed: Hutterer J. / Wien 18??

2. Two marble statues by Kiss of 1894 flanking the door. These statues were made on request of archbishop Vaszary Kolos, and erected by the Esztergom canons Pór Antal and Maszlaghy Ferencz.
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   3. Csanád Telegdi, by Kiss György, 1894
      (c. 1280 - 1349), bishop of Eszergom (Wikipedia).

      TELEGDI CSANÁD esztergomi érsek 1330-1349

      Telegdi Csanád Archbishop of Esztergom 1330-1349

      Signed: Kiss György szobrász Budapest (Kiss György, sculptor, Budapest)
      
      Emeltették / Maszlaghy Ferencz és Por Antal / esztergomi kanonokok 1909 (erected by Maszlaghy Ferencz and Pór Antal, canons of Esztergom).

   4. Nagy Lajos király, by Kiss György, 1894
      King Louis I of Hungary (Visegrád 1326 - Nagyszombat/Trnava 1382), King of Hungary and Croatia (1342-1382) and King of Poland (1370-1382) (Wikipedia).

      NAGY LAJOS Magyar Lengyel-Dalmátország stb. Királya 1342-1382

      Louis the Great King of Hungary, Poland, Dalmatia etc. 1342-1382

      Signed: Kiss György szobrász Budapest (Kiss György, sculptor, Budapest)
      Emeltették / Pór Antal és Maszlaghy Ferencz / esztergomi kanonokok 1909 (erected by Pór Antal and Maszlaghy Ferencz, canons of Esztergom).

Sculptors

• Johann Hutterer (1835-1907).
  
• Kiss György (Szászvár 1852 - 1919), Hungarian sculptor.

Sources & Information

• Köztérkép.

Tags

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