The construction and art of the Parliament

The Parliament Building in Budapest is one of the most important buildings in Hungary, and one of the most well-known in the world. No one can escape the impressive influence of this giant building towering along the Danube, which has become a symbol of the capital and even the entire country over the past hundred years. The Parliament Building in Budapest is an exceptional creation in that the entire building and practically all of its decorations and all of its fine art works were largely built in a single period, and most of them have survived in their original form to this day. Despite its outstanding importance, no detailed treatment based on the completeness of the data and documents, i.e. a large monograph, has been published about the Parliament Building. This volume, which was created based on a rich repository of written, printed and material sources from the time, intends to fill this painful gap. But the work discusses not only the history and artistic design of the Parliament Building, but also the narrower and broader social environment in which it was created. The text is accompanied by extremely rich and diverse visual material. 2020 (1st edition), 2021 (2nd edition, revised reprint)