UNKNOWN MASTER, illuminator
(14th century)

St Stephen Martyr (from the Illuminated Chronicle)

c. 1360
Parchment
National Széchényi Library, Budapest

Description of the illumination: Stephanus Sanctus, the Martyr at the birth of Stephanus Primus, first king of Hungary.

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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