{"id":10090,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"possible-sandro-botticelli-fresco-painting-found-in-hungarian-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/possible-sandro-botticelli-fresco-painting-found-in-hungarian-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Sandro Botticelli Fresco Painting Found in Hungarian Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sandro Botticell Fresco Painting Attribution\" alt=\"Sandro Botticell Fresco Painting Attribution\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/botticelli-esztergom-ad68a9e9e69b.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One of the 4 Medieval Virtues Sandro Botticelli? fresco painting, ca. 1470, Esztergom, Hungary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">06\/10\/2007 &#8211; A restoration project in Esztergom, Hungary has resulted in a surprise possible attribution of a <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#fresco\">fresco<\/a> painting to <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10035\">Early Italian Renaissance<\/a> painter <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10124\">Sandro Botticelli<\/a>. While restorations have been ongoing since 2000 on the four-piece mural, it is only in recent weeks that art historians have recognized the hand of Sandro Botticelli in the one of the fresco paintings. <br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mural paintings were commissioned to decorate the castle chapel by Janos Vitez, Archbishop of Esztergom. To paint the frescoes, Vitez employed the school of <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=10054#L\">Fra Filippo Lippi<\/a> to whom Sandro Botticelli was apprenticed. The images depict the four medieval virtues, a common theme of the <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10051\">Italian Renaissance<\/a>. Apparent in the fresco painting to even a casual observer is the flowing red hair characteristic of Sandro Botticelli&#8217;s favorite model, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10114\"> Simonetta Vespucci<\/a>, who died in 1476, but who Botticelli continued to paint for the remainder of his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Janos Vitez was a Hungarian <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#humanism\">Humanist<\/a> who was born around 1400 and reigned as archbishop in Hungary from 1465 to 1472.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> For more information on Italian Renaissance Art and book recommendations, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=10039\">click here.<\/a><br> <br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/10\/2007 &#8211; A restoration project in Esztergom, Hungary has resulted in a surprise possible attribution of a fresco painting to Early Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. While restorations have been ongoing since 2000 on the four-piece mural, it is only in recent weeks that art historians have recognized the hand of Sandro Botticelli in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}