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History Museum of Catalonia - From May 7 through August 2, 2009
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. From September 4 to November 29, 2009
The exhibition, jointly organized by the Museum of History of
Catalonia and the Hungarian National Museum, unveils the relations
established between the two countries during the medieval period. Ties
that were based on marriage strategies among the ruling dynasties of
both countries, the houses of Aragon id'Ã?rpad, and that led to four
royal marriages between the twelfth and early sixteenth. The
protagonists of
These links are four princesses who are queens Constance of
Aragon, Violante of Hungary, Beatrice of Aragon and Mary of Habsburg.
All of them assert their political role within the power structures of
medieval courts and represent four different models of exercise
authority.
The exhibition brings together an important
collection of more than 200 pieces from museums and collections in
Europe and the United States among which a set of tables from the Musée
Languedocien of Montpellier, where he is the only contemporary
representation of King James I The treasure of Santa Isabel de
Portugal, the Machado de Castro Museum in Coimbra, prepared by master
goldsmiths in the Crown of Aragon, part of the funerary complex of
Constance of Aragon, from the Cathedral of Palermo, a selection of the
Library Queen Beatrix and her brother John of Aragon, and a large
sample of objects on the origins of the Magyar people from the
Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, where the exhibition will be
seen later.
