57 result(s) for medieval in Community & Culture
Now On: Far From Mount Ararat Exhibition, Budapest History Museum
- 26 Aug 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The Armenians have been present in the Carpathian Basin since the Middle Ages, but some hypotheses claim that the Hungarians had already had contacts with them even before the Conquest of Hungary. Their more substantial immigration took place in the second half of the 17th century, and further waves came in the 20th. In the Early Modern era, they strengthened Hungary's economy as a mediator ...
Invitation: Festive Programmes At Balaton Shore In Hungary, 20 August
- 15 Aug 2013 9:40 AM
- community & culture
Fireworks around Lake Balaton at different locations: Balatonfüred Balatonlelle Keszthely Siófok Zamárdi Zánka.
Other free programmes of the national festivity series
Contemporary Art & Innovation: Innotica Group Launches Their Innovation In Art Series
- 12 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Kitti Gosztola, nominee of the prestigious Essl Art Award, is the first artist to exhibit her Labours of the Months cycle at Innotica Group’s Budapest offices. The Innovation in Art Series support young talents exhibiting their work, and also aims to stimulate inspiring dialogues between corporate managers and contemporary visual artists in the spirit of innovation and creativity.
Invitation: Lenten Evensong...Budapest, 23 March
- 21 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Evening Prayer, or Evensong as it is generally called when sung, is one of the Church’s “Offices,” or official prayers. It derives from the Vespers and Compline of medieval monasteries when monks or nuns would gather to bid a prayerful farewell to the day just past and prepare for a night’s rest.
Art Lecture Series 2012, Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 11 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
When the transcendent content of medieval art gradually lost its power, new artistic aspirations emerged to echo the call of a new era. Man’s relationship with himself and with the world had gone through significant changes in Europe over the course of the fifteeenth and sixteenth centuries, a period associated with the Renaissance. The assertion of the individual and his taste for earthly goods ...
Now On: 'What Is Hungarian? Contemporary Answers', Műcsarnok Budapest
- 23 Aug 2012 12:45 PM
- community & culture
National identity has been one of the most prominent topics of Hungarian public discussions for more than two centuries now. Questions appear in numerous works of art, particularly after the birth of Historicism, the last great consistent stylistic trend of Romanticism. In the first part of the 19th century, in the so-called Reform Era, in the wake of German treatises on the character of nations, ...
Now On: The Ager Of Pieter Bruegel, Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 9 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
At a time of stormy historical events in the sixteenth-century the Netherlands underwent vast changes in its intellectual life and the arts. This century saw a deepening of the divide between medieval and modern cultures with Italian Humanism and Renaissance playing a major role in the formation of the new, humanistic system of values.
'Hungarian Busójárás' In Mohács, 16 - 21 February
- 9 Feb 2012 11:35 AM
- community & culture
"Held in Mohács, the 'Busójárás' is a spectacular traditional event that has become a popular attraction in Hungary. It is both a celebration of the end of winter and of the occasion during the Turkish occupation when the villagers put on frightening masks to drive away the invaders. Children go along shaking feather and sawdust filled stockings. A medieval cannon is taken along and a huge fire ...
Mikulás: Saint Nicholas’s Day Traditions In Hungary On 6 December
- 6 Dec 2010 8:00 AM
- community & culture
According to Hungarian custom it is Saint Nicholas (Mikulás) who comes bearing gifts for children on his name day, December 6th.
Now On: Far From Mount Ararat Exhibition, Budapest History Museum
- 26 Aug 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The Armenians have been present in the Carpathian Basin since the Middle Ages, but some hypotheses claim that the Hungarians had already had contacts with them even before the Conquest of Hungary. Their more substantial immigration took place in the second half of the 17th century, and further waves came in the 20th. In the Early Modern era, they strengthened Hungary's economy as a mediator ...
Invitation: Festive Programmes At Balaton Shore In Hungary, 20 August
- 15 Aug 2013 9:40 AM
- community & culture
Fireworks around Lake Balaton at different locations: Balatonfüred Balatonlelle Keszthely Siófok Zamárdi Zánka.
Other free programmes of the national festivity series
Contemporary Art & Innovation: Innotica Group Launches Their Innovation In Art Series
- 12 Jul 2013 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Kitti Gosztola, nominee of the prestigious Essl Art Award, is the first artist to exhibit her Labours of the Months cycle at Innotica Group’s Budapest offices. The Innovation in Art Series support young talents exhibiting their work, and also aims to stimulate inspiring dialogues between corporate managers and contemporary visual artists in the spirit of innovation and creativity.
Invitation: Lenten Evensong...Budapest, 23 March
- 21 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- community & culture
Evening Prayer, or Evensong as it is generally called when sung, is one of the Church’s “Offices,” or official prayers. It derives from the Vespers and Compline of medieval monasteries when monks or nuns would gather to bid a prayerful farewell to the day just past and prepare for a night’s rest.
Art Lecture Series 2012, Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 11 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
When the transcendent content of medieval art gradually lost its power, new artistic aspirations emerged to echo the call of a new era. Man’s relationship with himself and with the world had gone through significant changes in Europe over the course of the fifteeenth and sixteenth centuries, a period associated with the Renaissance. The assertion of the individual and his taste for earthly goods ...
Now On: 'What Is Hungarian? Contemporary Answers', Műcsarnok Budapest
- 23 Aug 2012 12:45 PM
- community & culture
National identity has been one of the most prominent topics of Hungarian public discussions for more than two centuries now. Questions appear in numerous works of art, particularly after the birth of Historicism, the last great consistent stylistic trend of Romanticism. In the first part of the 19th century, in the so-called Reform Era, in the wake of German treatises on the character of nations, ...
Now On: The Ager Of Pieter Bruegel, Museum Of Fine Arts Budapest
- 9 Jul 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
At a time of stormy historical events in the sixteenth-century the Netherlands underwent vast changes in its intellectual life and the arts. This century saw a deepening of the divide between medieval and modern cultures with Italian Humanism and Renaissance playing a major role in the formation of the new, humanistic system of values.
'Hungarian Busójárás' In Mohács, 16 - 21 February
- 9 Feb 2012 11:35 AM
- community & culture
"Held in Mohács, the 'Busójárás' is a spectacular traditional event that has become a popular attraction in Hungary. It is both a celebration of the end of winter and of the occasion during the Turkish occupation when the villagers put on frightening masks to drive away the invaders. Children go along shaking feather and sawdust filled stockings. A medieval cannon is taken along and a huge fire ...
Mikulás: Saint Nicholas’s Day Traditions In Hungary On 6 December
- 6 Dec 2010 8:00 AM
- community & culture
According to Hungarian custom it is Saint Nicholas (Mikulás) who comes bearing gifts for children on his name day, December 6th.