Péter Veres:
The Paintings of Mathias Veress around Odorheiu-Secuiesc
Mathias Veress was one of the most appreciated painters of his age. We don’t know exactly his date of birth, but according to some History of Arts’ documents, he was born in 1739, and he died on 2. December 1809, in Cluj.
This study treats the different phases of the painter’s life and the pieces known up to the present. His paintings can be found all over Transylvania, almost each painting has a religious theme. Between 1780 and 1781 together with his wife, Krisztina Perger he painted and gilded the altar of the Franciscan church in Odorheiu-Secuiesc. Unfortunately this altar does not exist anymore. In 1796 - as we can read in the local Domus Historiae - he makes the altar-piece of the roman catholic church in Bisericani. This altar had been totally remade in 1943 by the sculptor Dénes Leiber, and the altar-piece had been restored by the Hungarian picture-restorer, László Pintér, the same year.
The painting represents Saint Mary surrounded by the twelve apostles right before the Whitsuntide, the coming of the Holy Spirit at Whitsuntide.
This painting is one of the few pieces of Mathias Veress preserved in quite a good state, thanks to the restorer’s, László Pintér’s work.
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