Kárpáti Zoltán - Liptay Éva - Varga Ágota szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 101. (Budapest, 2004)
ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - A 2004. ÉV - TEMPORARY EXEIIBITIONS - IDŐSZAKI KIÁLLÍTÁSOK - MÁRTON OROSZ: Chamber Exhibition of the Works of Joan Miró
Guercino's composition drawing depicting The Triumph of David (fig. 60) is related to his painting made originally for the collection of the Galleria Colonna in Rome, which is preserved today in the Burghley House Collection in England. Two picturesque, wash composition studies representing scenes of baptising by Saint Peter allow an insight into the preparatory work for the paintings intended for Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome by the leading painter of Roman Late Baroque, Carlo Maratta. While mosaics were made of them for the Basilica, the oil paintings executed by his students were installed in the San Francesco Church in Urbino. Salvator Rosa's Prometheus is one of the artist's fresh and spontaneous sketches, which was prepared for his painting in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Arte Antica in Rome. The greatest portion of the drawings originates in the most important Hungarian private collection, that of the Esterházy princes, and thus, the exhibition received the title, The Esterházy Heritage. In part, the displayed etchings rendered more complete the picture generated by the œuvres of the artists featured also with drawings; in part, they raised the artists whose drawings are not included in the collection of the Museum into the scope of the audience, such as Stefano della Bella, Jusepe de Ribera and Pietro Testa. The representative catalogue produced in Italian and Hungarian versions, published by Akadémiai Kiadó (Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), summarises the history of Italian Baroque graphic art, and the antecedents in the collection history of the Italian drawings in Budapest, followed by longer sections of the catalogue analysing the 94 most beautiful drawings exhibited in Rome, accompanied by colour reproductions. A smaller, Hungarian-English catalogue lists all the artworks displayed in Budapest, following a brief introductory essay. Coinciding with the Budapest show, the English complete classified catalogue of the seventeenth century Italian drawing collection of the Museum of Fine Arts was published from the pen of the curator. ANDREA CZÉRE CHAMBER EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF JOAN MlRÓ 1 July-30 September 2004 Curator: Maria José Salazar Herreria Joan Miró 1893-1983, ed. Tímea Türk and Péter Újvári, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 2004,163 pp., Hungarian and English, 48 col. ills., ISBN 963 7063 005 One of the most celebrated Catalonian artists of the twentieth century, enjoying uninterrupted popularity up to the present day, appeared in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest with exactly twice as many works of art as four years earlier, in the Klee-Tanguy-Miró show. Budapest was already the third stop for that travelling exhibition of great acclaim (fig. 61 ). Joan Miró's rich œuvre was represented in the more recent chamber exhibition by forty-eight compositions: alongside the paintings, bronze sculptures, as well as largescale graphic works. The artworks derived from the collection of the Museo Nacional
