# Mór Than’s Feast of Attila paints a Hungarian national banquet of the Hun king

Date: 1870

## The fact

In 1870 Mór Than exhibited The Feast of [Attila](/people/attila), a historicist canvas now in the Hungarian public museum circuit, staging the king as national ancestor at table. Attila did not commission 1870 oil.

## Context

Nineteenth-century history painting is a nationalist instrument. It is not Priscus. Split the 1870 canvas from the Fordham fragment.

Attila is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Museum, UNESCO, or critical-edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument. No fifth-century autograph file is claimed.

Official or archival record: Museum of Fine Arts Budapest (https://www.mfab.hu/; Szépművészeti Múzeum).

## Significance

A national banquet picture is a polarising usable-past path. High confidence on the painting’s date.

A national banquet picture is a polarising usable-past path. High confidence on the painting’s date.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated later public record of this tradition or site. Not established: a Hun headcount or a medical cause of death as original numbers.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Attila: https://factrail.ai/people/attila

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://mnm.hu/en
- https://www.mfab.hu/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/at-mor-than-feast