Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)

Balázs SEMSEY: Architecture and Museology at the End of the 19th Century

5. Detail of the Maksa ceiling in the Museum of Applied Arts, photo by the author, 2009 of the Maksa church doomed to demolition. It was brought to Radisics's notice by József Huszka. Radisics immediately began negotiations about the conveyance of the ceiling, also asking for the minister of culture Dezső Csáky's support with reference to the fact that the ceiling was "the pendant of the wooden gallery from Mezőcsát graciously donated to us" by the minister." So it seems that the negotiations begun in 1893 for the acquisition of the painted furniture of the Sóly church went on as part of the more and more goal-oriented collecting work.

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2 In a letter of 17 September of the next year Radisics informed the minister of the success of the action, also noting: "As the report to the directorate by the named curator [i.e. Kamill Fittler, who supervised the dissembling and the transfer to the new location] reveals, although certain components are damaged, they will be installed in the new museum without special difficulty where this gallery and ceiling will undoubtedly be an interesting spectacle."

13 These furnishing items of the collection were closely tied to the interior decoration 11