Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 90-91.(Budapest, 1999)
The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts in 1998
relationship between works, similarities or contrasts in style, as well as showing artistic influences and counter-influences. Moreover great care was taken to bring to life the pleasing appeal of the atmosphere of great old collections. A detailed account of the principles and the results of the artistic arrangement was published by Ildikó Ember. {BullMusHongrBA , 88-89(1998) 127-134, 235-240) Temporary exhibitions The Hunting Centaur 11 September - 15 November. Ionic Passage Arranged by Krisztina Jerger, László Török, Marianna Dági and Géza Andó. A new acquisition of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities was displayed in this small exhibition (fig. 95). The limestone relief depicting the hunting centaur is supposed to have been created in a workshop in Oxyrhynchos between 330-350 AD, which is thought to have been originally part of a tombstone. Its historical value is outstanding: it documents the birth of Coptic art, the last flowering of ancient art on the land of Egypt. To quote from the short monography by László Török dealing with this work: "[It]...illustrates the moment in which, after standing apart for millennia, Egypt was fully integrated into the Eastern Mediterranean world, and in which, at the same time, a new Egyptian civilization emerged: the Coptic culture". The bilingual monography was translated into hungarian by Agnes Naszlady and was published by Atlantisz, edited by Theodora Hübner and Tamás Miklós - the result of the first close cooperation between the publisher and the museum. Krisztina Jerger built the darkened cryptlike labyrinthine chamber, the displayed objects were illuminated only by small spotlights. The objects exhibited were: the relief, two cabinets containing some coptic relics as an illustration of the historic and artistic background, including some carefully restored textiles by Enikö Sipos, her work was voluntary - and the book mentioned above. One comment in the visitors book: "all new acqusitions should be displayed like this" perhaps represents the truth. Italian Renaissance Drawings I. 17 September - 17 January 1999. Doric Pyramid Arranged by Loránd Zentai. The catalogue of the exhibition was written by Loránd Zentai. It was translated into English by John Bátki: Sixteenth-Century Central Italian Drawings. This exhibition, which was one of a series of regular and consistent museum shows displaying works according to "schools", had 65 drawings. This collection was selected from over six hundred Italian Renaissance and Mannerist drawings, the works of mainly
