Selected Works from the Collections
Woven Tapestries
The collection represents several important centres of medieval and early modern European tapestry art, including Brussels, Tournai, Bruges, and Oudenaarde. Alongside religious subjects, historical and mythological themes are also found in the depictions.
Holy Years on papal medals of the Christian Museum
Papal and pilgrimage medals of the Jubilee Years held since 1300. A selection from the numismatic collection for the exhibition opened on 17 November 2024.
Piroska Szántó: Biblical Images
The original pastel drawings of the artist’s biblical illustrations, published in print in 1987, were purchased for the museum by László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom.
Pituk, József Divine Comedy (graphics)
Dante Alighieri’s work, written between 1308 and 1321, The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia), is a classic of world literature. In the 1970s and 1980s, József Pituk illustrated scenes from the chapters of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso in ink on approximately 100 sheets.
Péter Prokop: Camp Drawings (1956)
Péter Prokop (1919–2003), painter, spent three months from January 1957 as a refugee in Yugoslavia, being transported from one camp to another. During this time, he drew fellow Hungarian refugees like himself in the drawing folder he had brought with him. The works came to Hungary when the painter finally returned to settle there, and later entered the collection of the Christian Museum in Esztergom as part of his estate.
Paintings by Ernő Fischer
On the occasion of his exhibition held in 1989, Ernő Fischer (1914–2002), painter and influential art educator, donated a selection of his works to the Christian Museum.
Graphics by László Nádas
At the end of his life, applied artist László Nádas (1936–2022) donated a selection of his late graphic works on biblical themes to the Christian Museum.
Bazsonyi, Arany (1928-2011) Graphics
After the poet and visual artist’s death, in 2012, at the same time as an exhibition dedicated to him was held, 54 graphic works and several paintings entered the museum’s collection.
Graphic works by Antoni Waterloo
Of the 140 known works by the 17th-century Dutch printmaker, 120 impressions from various editions can be found in the Christian Museum.
