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Because of the unstable political situation in eastern Europe, the appearance there of the Renaissance style of architecture was very sporadic and usually closely dependent upon the ruling personalities. The election in 1458 of Matthias Corvinus as king of Hungary marks the first serious interest in this region in the new architectural style. Matthias had translations prepared of the contemporary Italian architectural treatises of Filarete and Alberti and in 1467 invited to Hungary briefly the Bolognese architect and engineer Aristotele Fioravanti. The buildings designed for Matthias, such as his hunting lodge of Nyek, have been destroyed. The Bakócz Chapel (1507), ...(100 of 75936 words)

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