| Alkotó | |
|---|---|
| Készítés ideje | 1781 |
| Tárgytípus | sketch for a painting |
| Anyag, technika | copper plate, oil |
| Méret | image: 62.7 × 43.3 cm |
| Leltári szám | 74.10M |
| Gyűjtemény | Old Hungarian Collection |
| Kiállítva | Museum of Fine Arts, Second Floor, Variations on the Baroque – Art in Hungary 1600-1800 |
The painting was made for the main altarpiece of the Saint Ladislaus Chapel of the Primate’s Palace in Pozsony (today Bratislava, Slovakia). It was commissioned by Prince Primate József Batthyány, who called Franz Anton Maulbertsch from Vienna to paint the cupola fresco, depicting the scene from the legend of Saint Ladislaus in which the king makes water spring from a rock. Due to Anton Rosier’s death, the main altarpiece was implemented by Zallinger, who was Maulbertsch’s student and assistant. His depiction of the apotheosis of the holy king is a reference to Saint Ladislaus offering his crown to the Virgin Mary, and it repeats the compositional scheme of his predecessor, King Saint Stephen’s offering of his crown. This is a Baroque-era invention in the iconography of Saint Ladislaus. Next to the king kneeling on the clouds, cherubim are holding the crown jewels and his attribute, a battle axe. The figure of the Virgin Mary is presented in a less visionary manner here, on the knight king’s standard.
Garas, Klára, Magyarországi festészet a XVIII. században, Magyarországi barokk festészet 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1955, 198.
Mojzer, Miklós (ed.), A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria régi gyűjteményei, Corvina Kiadó, Budapest, 1984.
Mojzer, Miklós (ed.), Ungarische Nationalgalerie Budapest: Alte Sammlung, Corvina Kiadó, Budapest, 1984.
Mojzer, Miklós (ed.), The Hungarian National Gallery: The Old Collections, Corvina Kiadó, Budapest, 1984.
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