Anjou Legendarium
Gerard Sagredo
's martyr death.The Anjou Legendarium is a Gothic illuminated manuscript of a collection of stories from the life of saints important to the House of Anjou of Hungary. It was made on the occasion of the journey of Charles I of Hungary and his son Prince Andrew to Naples in Italy in 1330.[1]
The legendarium was a picture book intended for children with a brief text accompanying pictures. The painters of the work came from Bologna and painted in the style of the trecento.[1]
Portions of the manuscript can be found in the
Gerard Sagredo, the prince Saint Emeric of Hungary, the King Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary, the Polish bishop Stanislaus of Szczepanów, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Martin, Saint George and of many other legendary Christians
.
See also
References
- ^ a b c "The Saint Ladislaus legend". Anjou Hungarian Legendarium (in Hungarian) – via Vatican Library.
Further reading
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- Stella Mary Newton, "Tomaso da Modena, Simone Martini, Hungarians and St. Martin in Fourteenth-Century Italy", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 43 (1980), pp. 234–238. JSTOR 751199
- Béla Zsolt Szakács, The Visual World of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary (Central European University Press, 2016).
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