Arrival of the Hungarians

[1][2] Since the 1100th anniversary of the event in 1995, the painting has been displayed in the Ópusztaszer National Heritage Park, Hungary.

[4][5] In order to create an authentic representation of the landscape, Feszty visited the Verecke Pass of the Carpathians near Munkács, where the Hungarians entered the Basin in 895.

The people were painted by Pál Vágó and Henrik Papp, and the camps by Celesztin Pállya.

After the work had been done, Feszty blamed himself for not finishing it by the deadline, and he ultimately lost 10,000 florins after paying the bills.

Huge crowds wanted to see the painting, the biggest attraction of the millennial exhibition in Hungary, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of the conquest.

[5] In the siege of Budapest during World War II, the building and the canvas of the cyclorama suffered damages.

[5] Since 1995 it has been on display again, together with artificial terrain and hidden speakers playing realistic sound effects.

The seven chieftains of the Hungarians , a detail of the cyclorama
Feszty and his assistants at work
Feszty's Panorama was displayed at the Greater Britain Exhibition ( World's Fair ) of 1899
The first sketch by Feszty, from 1891
A Hungarian táltos on the painting, a figure from Hungarian mythology
First building of the cyclorama
Rotunda in Ópusztaszer. The current location of the Feszty Panorama.
Detail of the painting before its restoration