A kassai Szent Erzsébet-templom reliefciklusa

Abstract

Abstract The dating and art historical evaluation of the surviving relief ornaments of the portal of St Elizabeth's parish church in Kassa – all statues in the round being lost – are unsettled, although the building history of the church itself has been clarified. Since the interwar period the style of the reliefs was tentatively traced to the (Swabian or Bohemian) Parler sculpture, while the idiosyncratic features of the reliefs were usually ignored. Notably, the reliefs have a coarsely realistic trait which was described by Jindra Bakosova in 1982 as a local precedent to Jakob Kaschauer's art, that is, the appearance of a progressive style. This, in turn, must obviously be associated with a later date. In his article on the wooden reliefs of Christ's Passion in the Christian Museum in Esztergom published in Hungarian, in which he alleged to find their stylistic relatives in the Zwettl altarpiece in the Osterreichische Galerie, young Ernst Gombrich also briefly referred to the Kassa reliefs. In the meant...