Room 10
This room presents the period of absolutism in Hungary associated with the Habsburg rulers Charles III, Maria Theresa, and Joseph II. Here the visitor can admire treasures representative of aristocratic lifestyles, significant objects made for the Roman Catholic Church, and items that belonged to burghers in the towns. Evoking the Baroque age and the Rococo age which followed it, the room conveys, by way of attire, jewellery, and artefacts for use, the magnificence of the court and the rich cultural life there.
Interesting facts:
Exhibited here is the broadsword with which the Hungarian Jacobins were executed on the Vérmező (ʻField of Blood’) in Buda in 1795.
According to wine drinkers at this time, the distinctive bouquet of Tokaji Aszú wine was due to gold in the soil of the slopes where the grapes for it were grown. Indicative of this idea is an etui made from glass and gold using sophisticated goldsmiths’ techniques and depicting a single Tokaji grape.
