Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 90-91.(Budapest, 1999)
The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts in 1998
Florentine and Roman masters representing on the one hand a cross-section of the whole museum collection, on the other hand attempting to show the general development of the art of drawing of the High Renaissance and Mannerism in Central Italy. Presented at the exhibition were outstanding pieces of the collection of the Department of Prints and Drawings such as all drawings by Leonardo and Raphael, as well as numerous drawings of masters working in Florence and Rome during the 16 th century. Represented were from Florence Fra Bartolommeo, Pontonno, Bronzino, Allori, Bandinelli, Salviati, Vasari among some others; from Rome several drawings were shown from the school of Raphael (Giulio Romano, Polidoro Caldara, Perino del Vaga), also works from some less known masters, as well as the drawings of the Zuccari brothers, Federico Barocci and their followers. The catalogue compiled for the exhibition summarised the research by Hungarian and foreign scholars during the last hundred years and gave a summary of some achievements of the author of the catalogue. Supplementary to the drawings - with special reference to the horse studies and sketches by Leonardo - the exhibition displayed the bronze equestrian statue attributed to Leonardo from the sculpture collection of the museum. The venue of the exhibition ment a departure from the customary place for the exhibitions of the Department of Prints and Drawings, owing to the ongoing reconstruction work in the museum. This work made it possible to place the exhibition in the newly renovated lower basement hall, where artificial lighting with spotlights was successfully installed (fig. 96). According to the exhibition programm plans, this will be followed by a similar exhibition displaying drawings from the collection of artists from Northern Italian Cinquecento schools representing the outstanding artistic quality of the period. RESTORATION WORK In the Department of Egyptian Antiquities Irén Vozil completed conservation work and restoration of a mummiform coffin. Apart from this she examined and analysed many works of art using X-ray and fine technology. In the collection of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities the statue of a child from the Polignac collection was restored by J. Varga. Restoration work on three Coptic textiles displayed at the hunting centaur exhibition was completed by E. Sipos. The assay of marble sculptures by D. Decrouez continued. Completely restored paintings: P. Gauguin, Black Pigs (M. Szentkirályi) P. Bonnard, Breakfast (I. Jeszeniczky) Valckenborch, Landscape (M. Velekei) The Frankfort Master, The Nativity (M. Szentkirályi) Cornelia de Ryck, Poultry-yard (M. Czifra) Filippino Lippi, Madonna and Child with Saints (M. Szentkirályi)
