Károly lotz the arrival of the hungarians in the new homeland. Illustration of the sunday newspaper. After the vigádó frescoes, when decorating the staircase of the national museum, than undertook an even bigger task: to paint the outstanding events of hungarian history in the first decade of dualism (1868-1877). He solved his task excellently and expressed his advanced thinking in his work. A smaller part of the frescoes was painted by lotz. But as than wrote: "lotz wanted an antique object here as well, fearing that it is not possible to draw enough material from the history of hungarian culture. " lotz paints history from the advance of the huns from asia to the events of the old hungarian folklore and the conquest, from the time of prince géza than to 1849. Furthermore, lotz painted the allegories of the ceiling, than the allegorical figures of the staircase wall. A positivist and romantic view of history is mixed in the picture (the arrival of the huns from asia, the hungarians in their homeland listen to the táltos oldies about attila's empire, the departure of the hungarians to the new homeland, the arrival of the hungarians to the new homeland, the blood pact of the ancestors, the battle of the alps, árpád accepts the homage of the defeated princes, the sacrifice of the proto-hungarians, the first christianity advertisement), in which the painter used the lessons of different types of composition, from life-like to battle portraits and culture-historical portraits. Date: 1876.
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