Gyor - Carmelite Church Karmelita templom

The magnificent Baroque edifice of the Karmelita templom (1721-25) on the southern edge of Bécsi kapu tér is the work of Martin Athanasius from the Austrian Tirol. It is modeled on the Carmelite church in Rome, and thus is one of the few examples of Italian Baroque to be found in Hungary. In a chapel-niche to the right of the main doorway can be seen what is probably the best known Hungarian sculpture of the Virgin Mary, by the Venetian sculptor Giovanni Giuliani (1663-1744), who lived in Austria.

The pictures on the high altar are of SS Stephen and Emmerich paying homage to the Virgin Mary. Those on the side-altars (1726-27) are by the Neapolitan Martino Altomonte, a major Austrian Baroque artist, and depict the Fall of St John Nepomuk into the River Vltava, the Death of St Joseph and the Death of St John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, both Carmelite mystics. The sculptures in the church are the work of Franz Richter, also a Carmelite monk.