A Gallery of Royal Effigies in Medieval Hungary and His Genealogic Purpose

The article examines the painted galleries of kings and knights, most of which have now disappeared, found on the walls of palaces or royal castles in fourteenth-century Europe. Taking as its starting point the portrait galleries found in the so-called Hungarian Chronicon pictum, the research expands to consider the documentary and literary traces of similar galleries in Bohemia, France and Catalonia, identifying in the series a celebratory intent of the dynasties that passed through idealised portraits of predecessors.