Bakócz Chapel

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architectural design

  • TITLE: Western architecture
    SECTION: Eastern Europe
    ...and in 1467 invited to Hungary briefly the Bolognese architect and engineer Aristotele Fioravanti. The buildings designed for Matthias, such as his hunting lodge of Nyek, have been destroyed. The Bakócz Chapel (1507) erected by Cardinal Tamás Bakócz as his sepulchral chapel at the cathedral of Esztergom is completely Italianate. Built on a Greek cross plan surmounted by a...