Cséfalvay Pál - Ugrin Emese (szerk.): Ipolyi Arnold emlékkönyv (1986)

Summary

first Hungarian fundamental works in this field (architecture, sculpture, painting, applied arts).

Katalin DAVID, inspector of the ecclesiastical art-collections, considers the „Hungarian Mythology” as the fundamental work of the Hungarian iconography. Ipolyi’s method could be the base in the distant future for a complete national sacral manuel, in which not only the art history but also the comparative linguistics, the ethnography, and the Hungarian folklore could have a complex analyse.

Emese UGRIN, art historian examines Ipolyi’s influence on the contemporary art. He was for five years the president of the Fine Arts Society (Képzőművészeti Társaság) and defined by his theoretical direction and practical organizing (initiating exhibitions and as Maecenas) the Hungarian art after the compromise-period of 1867.

Pál CSEFALVAY, director of the Christian Museum of Esztergom presents Ipolyi as an art collector. Ipolyi respected in the art objects mainly the nostalgic records of the national and Christian past. He didn’t only find important the sacral work self, but all material sources of the national history and folk culture. He would substitute the destroyed historical relics by purchasing in other countries. He made an effort to reconstruct the state of the collection describing his adventurous fate.

György RÚZSA academical researcher, after giving a list of the paintings and sculptures, enumerates the icons of the Ipolyi collection. Ipolyi had bought them before that the collecting of icons became fashionable.

Emőke LÁSZLÓ makes as acquainted with the richest tapestry-collection of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, from which remained 25 pieces. The most important ones are the tapestries of Tournai, Bruxelles, Oudenaarde.

Károly GOMBOS, retired museum director (+) had given the description of the oriental rugs bought by Ipolyi. They are mostly from Asia Minor and Caucasus.

Veronika GER VERS-MOLNAR (+) wrote 17 years ago the presented study about the folk- embroideries of the collection. Ipolyi was the first who wanted to find also in the handwoven folk- textiles and embroideries material relics in relation with his mythology and proving the highly developed state of the Hungarian decorative art.

Imre KATONA, chairman at the Museum of Applied Art makes us known and appreciate the Haban ceramics of the Ipolyi collection.

As an appendix we present the literary activity of Ipolyi and the concerning most important bibliography.

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