1. Quattrocento and Art and Architecture around 1500

2. George of Poděbrady Jiřík z Poděbrad
The first elected king of Bohemia, 1458
His daugter Kateřina married Mathyas Corvinus
Mission to the courts of the European sovereigns

3. Hungary: Mathyas Hunyadi (Corvinus)
Hungarian king – elected by the Parliament 1458
Renaissance in Hungary  1st center of Renaissance culture on the north of the Alps
Catholic king
Constant wars with George of Poděbrady
Crowned himself king of Bohemia

4. Jagellonians Vladislav (Wladislaw) Jagiello
From the Polish dynasty (originally from Lithuania)
1471 crowned Bohemian king
1490 gained the Hungarian crown, after the death of Mathyas Hunyadi  moved to Buda

5. Prague in Quattrocento
Old Royal Palace, Prague Castle, 1493

6. Buda

7. Prague, 1495

8. Jagellonians Ludvík (Ludwig/ Lajosz) Jagiello
His son
Died in 1526 at the Battle at Mohacs
 the Hungarian court moved from Buda to Presburg (present day Bratislava) for the next 200 years
Ludwig´s sister Anna married Ferdinand I of Habsburg  Habsburgs on the Hungarian and Bohemian throne untill 1918

9. Circular Vault, Benedikt Ried

10. Diamond Vaults

11. Perspective
Smíšek Chapel, St Barbara, Kutná Hora

12. Landscape backgrounds
Lucas Cranach, 1510

13. Observation of Nature
Lucas Cranach, 1530