| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Bela Kocsardi (Beci) (53) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-09 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Camera: KodakEasyShare Z700 |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-10-29 23:02 |
| Viewed: 533 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The Basilica
Esztergom's Basilica is the largest in Hungary, measuring 118m in length and 40m in width, capped by a dome 100m high. Built on the site of the medieval basilica ruined by the Turks, it was begun by Pál Kühneland and Janos Packh in 1822, and finally completed by Jozsef Hild in 1869. It was consecrated thirteen year earlier in 1856 (as soon as the dome was in place), and Liszt's Gran Mass was composed for the occasion - Gran being the German name for Esztergom.
As befits what is claimed to be the fifth largest church in the world, its nave is on a massive scale, clad in marble, gilding and mosaics. To the left of the entrance is the lavish red marble Bakócz Chapel. Archbishop TamAs Bakócz from the original basilica for which it was commissioned salvaged its Florentine altar. It was this prelate whose papal ambitions were dashed when "his" crusade turned into the great peasants' revolt of 1514. The Venetian Michelangelo Grigoletti, based on Titian’s, painted the basilica’s main altarpiece Assumption in the Frari Church in Venice. |
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