Zsombor Jékely

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles.

Bad news from the library of Pannonhalma Arcabbey - www.npr.org/2025/07/14/n...

International Center of Medieval Art ICMA in Budapest Exhibiton tour of  Master MS and his age with Emese Sarkadi Nagy (curator) and Éva Galambos (restorer)   Friday 20 June 2025 3pm CET Museum of Fine Arts, ...

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Yesterday was the birthday of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Croatia. His library, the Bibliotheca Corviniana, was one of the largest libraries in medieval Europe. More than 200 works from the library are known to be extant today, and have been cataloged as one of our Legacy Libraries. 💙📚

Thieves Blast Open Dutch Museum Entrance and Steal Gold Pieces Three ancient Dacian bracelets and a gold helmet from 450 BCE were among the artifacts taken from the Drents Museum.

Dutch investigators and international police are searching for four gold pieces of jewelry stolen in a heist at the Drents Museum in Assen last weekend.

Thanks for following and welcome all new followers! However, does anyone see what I post? Take a look at my blog, there is some good stuff there from around 1500!

Sensational finds at the Franciscan Church of Visegrád medieval Hungary, renaissance Hungary

In my last blog post of the year, I report on the sensational finds made in 2024 during the excavations of the Franciscan church of Visegrád - Vaulting by Anton Pilgram, marble carvings by Benedetto da Maiano... jekely.blogspot.com/2024/12/sens...

Review of Imre Takács' book on The Arrival of French Gothic in Hungary A blog about medieval art in Hungary - with information about sites, exhibitions and publications.

Please take a look at my brief review of a highly important new book about the origins of Gothic art in medieval Hungary: jekely.blogspot.com/2024/12/revi...

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Tomorrow I will present the English translation of the monograph by Imre Takács, titled The Arrival of French Gothic in Hungary.

Getting ready for a conference on military history of medieval Hungary at the University of Debrecen next week. I will talk about the representations of King and Emperor Sigismund in late medieval chronicle illustrations. memhung.hu/13318-2/

The Festschrift for Markus Hörsch by GWZO is open access, and full of interesting studies on late medieval art in Central Europe - verlag.sandstein.de/detailview?n...

Szászbogács Summer University Course Organized for the Fourth Time A blog about medieval art in Hungary - with information about sites, exhibitions and publications.

An overview of the summer university course on heritage protection organized each year in Transylvania: jekely.blogspot.com/2024/08/szas...

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English as a Second Language Videos for Kids! Think Schoolhouse Rock meets Simon the Cat, Shaun the Sheep, or the films of Tim Burton!

Dear friends and followers, please consider taking a look at this worthy cause on Kickstarter
- Check out English as a Second Language Videos for Kids! by Lara Strong www.kickstarter.com/projects/lar...

I am pleased to announce that my Smarthistory essay on the Bakócz Chapel in Esztergom was published today - part of a new section dedicated to Central and Eastern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. More to come! smarthistory.org/bakocz-chapel/

Go and get it (or at least have a look): The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300-1600 is now out! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

I am getting a kick out of teaching early medieval art for the first time to my BA students! So much good stuff and such good online resources, including the online exhibition of the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai. stcatherines.mused.org/en/

The newly refurnished Wien Museum is now open - I found the permanent exhibition to be very busy, labyrinth-like, and crowded during the holiday season (it's free to visit). Nevertheless, it was great to see some of my favorite Viennese objects, the museum is highly recommended! www.wienmuseum.at

Emlékkonferencia Ipolyi Arnold születésének 200. évfordulója alkalmából

Coming up in two days: a conference commemorating Arnold Ipolyi, one of the founders of art historical studies in Hungary. I will speak about his patronage at Besztercebánya (Banská Bystrica), where he was bishop between 1872-1886 mrmt.hu/esemeny/emle...

Young Woman Sleeping - Theodoor van Loon (?) - Google Arts & Culture Baroque theories on art regarded genre pictures, which drew their subject matters from everyday life inferior to paintings with biblical or mythological su...

A wonderful painting, with an uncertain attribution. Here is a high-resolution photo: artsandculture.google.com/asset/young-...

Oh, it was a very short visit - I'm already up north in Frisia! Good to see you here!

Making progress through the galleries @rijksmuseum

Getting ready for my first visit to the Rijksmuseum since 1993. Any hints, tips? #rijksmuseum #amsterdam

DELIGHTED to advertise this PhD scholarship:

Looking for an excellent art historian interested in medieval paintings + death + judgment to work with Dr Niamh Bhalla (NorthEastern Univ London) and Dr Emily Guerry (MEMS)

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I haven't been very busy updating my blog this year, but if you are interested in the history of art in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary, you may want to have a look at some of the posts over there: jekely.blogspot.com

Raphael tapestry at the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Michelangelo drawing from the Met at the Albertina

Nice day and long night of museums in Vienna - perfect for the Raphael tapestries and some Michelangelo drawings!

Exclusive: first colour photographs shed fresh light on Ethiopia's most treasured icon and its looti... An Art Newspaper investigation uncovers new details on the infamous seizure in 1868 by Richard Holmes of a 500-year-old painting of Christ, the Kwer’ata Re’esu, which never reached the London inst...

Astonishing find: looted from Ethiopia by an agent of the British Museum, stashed in a Portuguese bank vault www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/25/e... 🗃

I will start on this new platform by calling attention to the website and database of the Thesaurus Mediaevalis research group, dedicated to cataloging architectural carvings from the territory of medieval Hungary. thesaurusmediaevalis.hu/en/home-2/

Hurray, I have my first follower! You may know me from the now cursed site X, where I tweeted a lot about medieval art, mainly from the Kingdom of Hungary. Let's see how this goes!