György Szatmári (c. 1457–1524), Patron of renaissance architecture in early 16th century Hungary

Péter Farbaky

doi:10.1556/ahista.41.1999-2000.1-4.3

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György Szatmári (c. 1457–1524), Patron of renaissance architecture in early 16th century Hungary

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Pages:: 213–278

Online Publication Date:: 01 Dec 1999

Publication Date:: 01 Dec 1999

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/ahista.41.1999-2000.1-4.3

Keywords:: Hungary; late 15th–early 16th century; Kassa (Kaschau; Košice; Slovakia); Pécs; Esztergom; Patronage; Renaissance architectural ornaments

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The son of a rich German burgher family of Kassa (Kaschau, Košice, today Slovakia), György Szatmári got into state administration after his studies in Krakow. The king, Vladislav II of the Jagellonian Dynasty (1490–1516) recompensed him for his services in the royal chancellary by ecclesiastic prebends. Besides his episcopal duties, he took over the chancellary leadership in 1498 and became the actual mastermind of Hungarian politics in the early 16th century. He had his proteges study in Italy and supported financially several humanists who sang the renown of the generous patron in their literary works. At the onset of his career he had the St Michael chapel in Kassa extended in late gothic style where only a stone ornament with his coat of arms represents the new, Renaissance style. His episcopal constructions in Pécs (1505–21) already show him as a real Renaissance art patron. The extant Renaissance tabernacle of the cathedral was carved by a Florentine master of the workshop of the Bakócz chapel in Esztergom, which is also adorned with his coat of arms. He had the episcopal palace of Pécs and the chapter house rebuilt in Renaissance style, and had a villa erected upon Francesco di Giorgio's plans on a hill above the town. Except for the ruined villa, his constructions only survive in a few fragments. The last station of his ecclesiastic career was Esztergom (1521–24) where he had the archbishop's palace rebuilt. His tomb erected in the cathedral perished, only written records informing us of it. His breviary preserved in the Bibliothčque Nationale in Paris was illumined by Boccardino il Vecchio in Florence in the mid-1510s.

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