1. Hungarian Late Gothic Painting and Sculpture (15-16th c.)

The upper part of the Lord’s Coffin is a gilded Gothic baldachin covered by a tent shaped roof. Its sides consist of a row of slender columns connected by tracery. Between the columns, the twelve apostles stand on small corbels. Their attributes survive in the hands of some of them. The figures of St. Peter and St. Paul are reconstructions in Gothic style made in 1872, at the time of the restoration of the work in Vienna. The large corbel between these apostles served probably to support the monstrance. In the niche above, there must have been a statue of the risen Christ. On Good Friday, the statue of the dead Christ was placed inside the Lord’s Coffin through the opening between the corbel and the niche.