MÁRIA PROKOPP (Budapest, 1939), has been Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Art at Eötvös Loránd University since 1969 – Professor Emerita since 2010. Her main field of research is European art of the 14th and 15th centuries, but she is also an expert in 19th century art. She published books on Italian masters like Giotto, Sassetta and Lorenzetti, and on the late Gothic art of Hungary. Almost for forty years, she has conducted research on the mural paintings of the 15th century Esztergom palace of Archbishop János Vitéz and their Italian Renaissance connections with the art of Botticelli. She is a holder of the Officer’s Rank of the Hungarian Order of Merit (2010) and the Order of Merit of Hungary with the Cross (2019).