Hungarian National Museum

Exhibitions > Permanent exhibitions > History of Hungary > Century of the Anjou rulers

	History of Hungary from the foundation of the state to 1990 Middle Ages
	Age of Arpads
	Century of the Anjou rulers
	King Zsigmond and the Hunyadis
	Villages and towns in the second half of the 15th century and at the beginning of the 16th century
	The Age of Matthias Hunyadi, the Jagielloes
	The Turkish Age
	Transylvania and the royal Hungary
	Driving out the Turkish. Aristocratic and urban relics from the 17th century
	Modern and Contemporary History
	Scholar Hungarians who made the 20th century
	On the East-West frontier: History of the people of the Hungarian lands from 400.000 BC to 804 AD
	The coronation mantle
	Medieval and Early Modern Lapidary
	Roman Lapidary

Century of the Anjou rulers

Room 2

Regarding the development of the economy and the cities, the reign of Károly Róbert and Lajos the Great was very favourable. The Gothic style dominated among the arts, and beyond defensibility, the aspects of comfort (stoves) and representation (heraldry) also emerged. The flourishing of the mining of precious metal largely and favourably affected the goldsmiths craft. The greater part of the remaining works of art of the age consists mainly of church or liturgical objects. The wealth of the secular treasuries is mostly represented by few treasures and grave finds of costume ornaments.

Curiosities

	In the first part of the 14th century, the greatest portion of the gold production of the known world came from Hungarian gold mines.
	The case from Szepesbéla carved out of one trunk is the oldest piece of furniture in the Hungarian National Museum. Although the case was not used for actual storage, nevertheless, copies of written relics can be seen in it.




Reconstruction of a wall fountain