UNKNOWN MASTER, painter
(14th century)

Bishop Saint from the one-time Cathedral of Nagyvárad

1350-60
Fresco, 18 x 24,5 cm
Christian Museum, Esztergom

The walls of the one-time Cathedral of Nagyvárad were covered with frescoes. The fresco fragment representing the head of a bishop saint was found in 1881 when an army barrack built from the stones of the Cathedral by Prince Gábor Bethlen was demolished.


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