MASTER of Budapest

Spanish painter, also referred to as Budapest Master. He received his name after an altarpieceGLOSSARYA picture or sculpture that stands on or is set up behind an altar. The term reredos is used for an ornamental screen or partition, not directly attached to the altar table but affixed to the wall behind it. A diptych is an altarpiece consisting of two panels, a triptych one of three panels, and a polyptych one of four or more panels. From the 14th to 16th century, the altarpiece was one of the most important commissions in European art; it was through the altarpiece that some of the most decisive developments in painting and sculpture came about. of which five panels are in the Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. The style of this Castilian painter shows some Franco-Flemish characteristics.