# Povážský Hrad and the Renaissance Mansion

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ender-thomas-r6cbbc349ded8bd/povsk-hrad-and-the-renaissance-mansion-r3a5a02f802152e>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [ENDER, Thomas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ender-thomas-r6cbbc349ded8bd>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 270 × 371 mm

## Commentary

The Renaissance mansion below the castle was built for Zsigmond Balassa and his wife, Magdolna Giczi, in 1631. The walls of its banqueting hall were decorated with murals and inscriptions written in Latin and Hungarian. By the latter half of the 19th century it was already in ruins.

## Related artworks

- [Orava Castle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ender-thomas-r6cbbc349ded8bd/orava-castle-r34b441814aafec>)
- [The Grossglockner with the Pasterze Glacier](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ender-thomas-r6cbbc349ded8bd/the-grossglockner-with-the-pasterze-glacier-rc7f150c1bafc88>)
- [The Pieniny Mountains with the Dunajec River](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ender-thomas-r6cbbc349ded8bd/the-pieniny-mountains-with-the-dunajec-river-r001500279562f2>)
- [View of Rio de Janeiro](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ender-thomas-r6cbbc349ded8bd/view-of-rio-de-janeiro-rfca92863bd794f>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)