Reneszánsz ablakkeretek az egykori budai királyi palotából. Két vörösmárvány faragványcsoport egy készülő katalógusból

Abstract

The massive red limestone of Tardos-Süttő popularly called red marble for its elegant looks both in the Middle Ages and today was revived as a representative building material (after the beginnings in the 12–13th centuries) by the lapidaries coming from Italy during King Matthias' reign. For the rebuilding of the Royal Palace in Buda in renaissance style, this material was used in large quantities for the moulded stone structures in addition to Buda marl (and to a far lesser extent freshwater limestone and rough stone). The 650 or so red marble carved fragments unearthed in Buda have been inventoried again in recent years within the Medium Regni program of the Széchenyi Plan. By examining each fragment in the lapidaria, we corrected and revised the manuscript formal-typological catalogue made by Emese Nagy in the 1990s. To introduce the work completed, we present a part of the catalogue and explicate a special question of reconstruction, the type of cross window with pilaster surrounds, shedding new light on certain assumptions maintained by the professional community.