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It is very difficult to define Lajos Gulácsy's place in 20th-century Hungarian painting. Gulácsy was, above all, attracted to medieval and Renaissance art, but he was also effected by French Rococo and the spirituality of the English Pre-Raphaelites. He often chose the subject of his paintings from the literature and art of these eras; at other times he just evoked the ambience of these historical periods. The figures of his own fairy-tale world evoke some kind of timeless environment. But a peculiarly modern sensitivity and a suggestive symbolism also radiate from each of his works, which indisputably make him an artist rooted in his own time. Ancíent Garden was painted in 1913. It is actually a landscape with staffage figures, yet the picture is immersed in imaginary memories and the emotional atmosphere of fairy-tales.
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