Doges Palace by Americo Makk shows the famous palace from a Grand Canal water POV. There are sailing boats in the foreground, and a blue sky with streaks of clouds above.

Concordera by Americo Makk shows a stagecoach stop in the mountains. The coach is attached to a team of horses and is waiting in front of a 2-story brown building. There is snow on the ground and covering the tall mountains in the background.

Challenge of Lights by Americo Makk is a Parisian street scene at dusk. Lights have come on, and people are seen at cafes and in apartment windows. The sky is filled with warm colors.

At La Fontaine by Americo Makk is a Parisian street scene. Evening is falling and there are people at cafes. A family sits around a fountain enjoying a picnic, as a horse drawn carriage goes by

Black Beauty by Americo Makk shows a running group of wild horses, led by a strong black horse with white blaze and feet.

The European forces at left-heavy cavalry and armor-are ponderous and weary from looting and their long march.

Inspired by a photo of the first moments of the 1956 revolution, the painting depicts a jubilant, unorganized crowd of Hungarian civilians shortly after they seized a Soviet tank outside of the Hungarian Parliament in Pest.

The city, named for its white castle is today's Belgrade, in Serbia, but in 1456 it was the seat of government for Hungary and the southern reaches of the Danube. Turkey's Sultan Mohamed Julius IV besieged the city with an army of 150,000 soldiers.

As King from 997-1038, Stephen (who was canonized 83 years after his death) Christianized Hungary and gained recognition of its independence from Pope Sylvester II in the form of a crown and title, "King by the Grace of God."

Andrew II, 1205-1235, was politically corrupt and economically inept. His alienation of Hungarian nobility led to rebellion in 1213.

Mathias (1458-1490) was literally a Renaissance man: a soldier and humanist and patron of the arts, sciences, and church, he sponsored the famed Buda Picture Chronicle and united Central Europe politically and economically.

In 1526 Suleiman the Magnificent lead an army of 300,000 Turks on a quest ot conquer the world. He failed.