The first Renaissance ruler in Central Europe, Matthias Corvinus is the best known historical personality in Hungary, and abroad, the most popular figure of folk tales. However, the historical view of his age has changed a lot recently and the exhibition would like to focus attention on this by placing in the centre the figure of the king and his court.

Beside the treasures of Hungarian public and religious collections 65 works of art are coming from different famous Austrian, Czech, German, Italian and Slovakian collections among them several that have never been displayed in Hungary. Among the institutions lending objects are the Gallerie degli Uffizi, the Biblioteca Laurenziana and the Bargello in Florence, the Vatican Library in Rome, the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, the Este Library in Modena in Italy, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, the Wien Museum, the Dom und Diözesanmuseum in Vienna and the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic.

The exhibition plans to present the court from different points: through the portraits the personalities of the king and the queen are shown, the financial background of the glorious campaigns and sponsoring the arts, feasts and everyday courtly life are also displayed. Visitors could get acquainted with the palaces of Buda, Visegrád and Vienna and with religious life, while statues and codices of the Corvina library illustrate the humanist centre turning towards antiquity. Although the connections of King Matthias to Italian princely courts and the Holy Seat in Rome were intensive, the Central-European relations get a special role.