Name of Object:

Holy Trinity Column in Buda

Location:

Budapest, Közép-Magyarország / Central Hungary, Hungary

Holding Museum:

Budapest History Museum

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Date of Object:

1714

Artist(s) / Craftsperson(s):

Franz Ambros Dietell (-Around 1730, Vienna)

Museum Inventory Number:

17832

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Engraving on paper

Dimensions:

H: 111 cm; w: 84.6 cm

Type of object:

Engraving

Description:

In the 17th and 18th centuries, different types of Holy Trinity statues reminded people of the sufferings of the plague of 1691. The Holy Trinity Column in Buda, standing in front of the Parish Church of the Holy Virgin and the Old Town House of Buda, was built between 1710 and 1714. In 1916, during World War I, the column was the scene of the coronation of king Charles IV Habsburg. The column was demolished at the end of the 19th century.
The original copperplates for this engraving are also preserved in the museum's collection. There were nine statues on the monument altogether, all of which were carved by Fülöp (Philipp) Ungleich. The three reliefs and coat-of arms were made by Antal (Anton) Hörger. Later, 16 statues were added to the column. The architectural setting surrounding the column also changed several times. During World War II the original statues in the collection of the Budapest History Museum were seriously damaged. A smaller size engraving was also made of the monument decades later.

A large-size Baroque engraving representing the Holy Trinity Column, one of Buda’s most precious Baroque monuments.

How date and origin were established:

On the basis of the work and its inscription

How Object was obtained:

Transferred from the Capital’s collection in 1945

Selected bibliography:

Budapest az Újkorban (Budapest in Modern Times), (ed. G. Szvoboda Dománszky), Budapest, 1995, p. 37.

Citation of this web page:

Beatrix  Basics "Holy Trinity Column in Buda" in "Discover Baroque Art", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://baroqueart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;BAR;hu;Mus11_A;49;en

Prepared by: Beatrix Basics
Copyedited by: Terézia BardiTerézia Bardi

SURNAME: Bardi
NAME: Terézia Anna

AFFILIATION: National Trust of Monuments for Hungary

TITLE: Art Historian, Vice Director for Research at The National Trust of
Monuments for Hungary; MWNF DBA local co-ordinator (Hungary), author
and copy-editor

CV:
Terézia Bardi, Vice Director for Research at the National Trust of Monuments for Hungary since 2004, was awarded her MA in History and History of Art at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. After a period of fellowships mainly in Italy, Terézia gained her PhD from the Faculty of Art History at the same university for her thesis Presentation and Representation – the European Reception of the Liberation of Buda in 1686: Feast and Public Opinion. Her main fields of research are 17th-and18th-century Baroque and Rococo: the spectacles, festival decorations and associated iconography – including theatre productions of the period – and interior decoration of historic houses. Since 1988, she has edited a number of art historical books that include some on Oriental art and architecture. She is MWNF DBA’s local (Hungarian) co-ordinator, author and copy-editor.
Translation by: Beatrix Basics
Translation copyedited by: Mandi GomezMandi Gomez

Amanda Gomez is a freelance copy-editor and proofreader working in London. She studied Art History and Literature at Essex University (1986–89) and received her MA (Area Studies Africa: Art, Literature, African Thought) from SOAS in 1990. She worked as an editorial assistant for the independent publisher Bellew Publishing (1991–94) and studied at Bookhouse and the London College of Printing on day release. She was publications officer at the Museum of London until 2000 and then took a role at Art Books International, where she worked on projects for independent publishers and arts institutions that included MWNF’s English-language editions of the books series Islamic Art in the Mediterranean. She was part of the editorial team for further MWNF iterations: Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean Virtual Museum and the illustrated volume Discover Islamic Art in the Mediterranean.

True to its ethos of connecting people through the arts, MWNF has provided Amanda with valuable opportunities for discovery and learning, increased her editorial experience, and connected her with publishers and institutions all over the world. More recently, the projects she has worked on include MWNF’s Sharing History Virtual Museum and Exhibition series, Vitra Design Museum’s Victor Papanek and Objects of Desire, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s online publication 2 or 3 Tigers and its volume Race, Nation, Class.

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