The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (abbreviated P.R.B.) was an art group, established in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt as an answer to the conservative teaching principles of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The group’s beau ideal was the Medieval and…
Miksa Róth’s contemporary: István Bárczy
The blog of the Róth Miksa Memorial House and Collection publishes quite a number of articles having - at first glance - little to do with the eponymous artist. The goal of these is to introduce to our readers the era and context in which Miksa Róth lived…
Tiffany was one of the most significant artists of his time, who—similarly to Miksa Róth—masterfully combined applied arts with fine arts in his creations.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in 1848 in New York, as the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the founder of the famous Tiffany & Co. jewelry…
Our latest article on the #rothmuzeum blog was inspired by our city walks; we have put together a one-hour walking route for you that is both manageable and exciting even without a guide. On our various guided tours you can explore the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and soon the 9th districts, visiting the…
Kálvária Hill, the hillside of Rose Hill (Rózsadomb) above the Margaret Bridge, is one of the most beautiful and exclusive spots of the 2nd district, overlooking the Danube, which has managed to preserve its rich architectural heritage despite the difficulties of history - the World War, socialism…
The Róth Miksa Memorial House and Collection is not only home to glass paintings made by the Róth workshop, but to those too which belong to the artist’s private collection. A pair of round glass paintings (by the inventory number 99.93.1. and 99.94.1.), dated around 1570, belongs to this second…
Joseph Walla (1855-1920) owned a successful factory of cement- and cast stone in Hungary at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. By the turn of the century his business gained immense popularity because factory-made cement and mosaic panels became widespread in Budapest as well as in the whole…
#ROTHMUZEUMBLOG: THE RÓTH MIKSA MEMORIAL HOUSE AND COLLECTION LAUNCHES ITS BLOG!Author: Dóra Kolocz / Translated by: Csenge Hangay
The Róth Miksa Memorial House and Collection cares for a complex, exciting collection, and within our walls there is just as much room for city, building, lifestyle…
Hungarian Parliament, Lipótmező Chapel, National Archives of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár), The Church of Eternal Worship (Örökimádás templom), Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely), Hague, Oslo, Mexico City.
Cities in and outside Europe, masterpieces in Hungarian public and private buildings, leaded…
The #rothmuzeumblog is a platform where we show the knowledge we have compiled in recent years, a platform that is about everything that interests us, a blog that the museum's staff runs in collaboration with its interns.
The Miksa Róth Memorial House and Collection blog is a big undertaking…