Fundacja biskupa György Szathmáry’ego dla katedry w Pécs

The Corpus Christi Chapel of Pécs Catedral contains a wall tabernacle founded in the years 1505-10 by Bishop György Szathamáry, the founded in the years 1505-10 by Bishop György Szathmáry, the future archbishop of Esztergom. The architectural form and decoration of the wall tabernacle at Pécs relates to this type of construction familiar to the Quattrocento in Florence from where it spread to other parts of Italy and North of the Alps to, among others, the countries of Eastern-Central Europe. Analogy, in terms both of construction and iconographic features include the wall tabernacle (currently a reliquary) in the Santo Chiodo Chapel of Colle Val d’Elsa Cathedral, associated with Domenico Rosselliand dated to immediately after 1465, as well as the sacrarium of San Barnaba’s church in Florence from the years 1489-94 and linked to the workshop of Benedetto da Maiano.