UNKNOWN MASTER, illuminator
(14th century)

The Vision (from the Illuminated Chronicle)

c. 1360
Parchment
National Széchényi Library, Budapest

Vision of King Geysa and Prince Ladislaus: a stag wearing burning candles on its antlers, marks out the site of the church to be built.

This illumination is one of the 147 of the Illuminated Chronicle (Chronicon Hungariae Pictum or Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum) commissioned by Hungarian King Lajos I (1342-1382).


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