the Mausoleum

Nádasdy Mausoleum
Ferenc Nádasdy 1
The Mausoluem was published in Nuremberg in 1664 at the expense of Ferenc Nádasdy, Judge Royal. It presents the history of Hungary as the history of the kings, with short Latin and German texts and the full-figure portraits of the rulers. Most of the engravings were made earlier, in the 1610s, in the environment of Rudolph II, for Lġrinc Ferenzffy's book about the Hungarian Kings, for which Illés Berger, the historiographer of the court would have written the text. This work, however, was never published. Nádasdy later acquired the engravings and, adding the images of the later kings, he published them with a new text.