Fragmentarily Preserved Gothic Murals on the Western Edge of Pannonia

Abstract

The author discusses the fragmentarily preserved murals attributed to regional painting workshops which exemplify the so-called vertical influence axis on the western edge of Pannonia. Despite their fragmentary condition, the examples discussed make an important contribution to our understanding of the artistic production in this territory at the time of the House of Luxembourg. The paper explores the productive connections between artistic workshops and their patrons. The artistic output of the workshops was characterized by the gradual fading of the high Gothic linear style already before the middle of the 14th Century, and by a ‘mixed’ or ‘transitional’ style under Italian Trecento influences in the second half of the 14th Century, whereas at the time of the peak of Czech and Viennese production around 1400 the international Gothic style prevails and is still discernible well into the 15th Century.