Kárpáti Zoltán - Liptay Éva - Varga Ágota szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 101. (Budapest, 2004)

ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - A 2004. ÉV - TEMPORARY EXEIIBITIONS - IDŐSZAKI KIÁLLÍTÁSOK - ANNAMÁRIA GOSZTOLA: "Original Copy": Artists' Copies by Ede Balló

"ORIGINAL COPY": ARTISTS' COPIES OF MASTERPIECES OF RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PAINTING, BY EDE BALLÓ AND HIS 19TH CENTURY HUNGARIAN CONTEMPORARIES Curators: Annamária Gosztola and Emese Révész 30 September - 20 November 2004 Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Barcsay Hall "Original Copy": Artists' Copies of Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Painting, by Ede Balló and his 19th Century Hungarian Contemporaries, ed. Emese Révész, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest 2004, 151 pp., Hungarian and English, 60 col. ills., ISBN 963 7165 23 1 Ede Balló (1859-1936) portrait painter, professor of drawing and reproductionist of classic masterpieces, in 1934 donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest his collection of one hundred copies, highly regarded by both the professionals and the public. Subsequently, these paintings were put on display in the halls on the second storey of the building that Balló erected at his own expense, or rather at that of his foundation, under the direction of architect Rezső Hikisch. (Later, the Study Collection was placed here, and today a part of the permanent Dutch exhibition is on view in these rooms.) The fate of the works became increasingly inauspicious after the war. As a consequence of, on one hand, the standardisation of the Hungarian museums' range of collecting that spanned several decades from the 1950s onwards, and, on the other 62. Interior view of the exhibition