Abstract
Abstract The portrait collection of the Boksay Jozsef Museum of Art of the County of Transcarpathia has several unexplored items of Hungarian and European relevance. Among them there are portraits of fifteen Greek catholic bishops of Munkacs (Mukacevo) and of dignitaries of the Order of St Basil the Great. Some of the portraits originated from the Basilian monastery at Munkacs-Csernekhegy, the others were still decorating the dining hall of the episcopal residence in Ungvar (Užhorod) in 1942. In addition to portraits of eight bishops of the 19–20th centuries, the series contains the portraits of Bazil Taraszovics (1634–1651), Jozsef De Camelis (1690–1706), Gyorgy Blazsovszky (1738–1742), and two each of Manuel Olsavszky (1743–1767) and Andras Bacsinszky (1772–1809). The stylistic features suggest that the half-length portrait of bishop Bazil Taraszovics (1643–1651) was probably painted between 1643 and 1648. The portrait of the bishop of Galician descent belongs to the so-called Sarmatian portrait type of...
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