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ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - A 2004. ÉV - TEMPORARY EXEIIBITIONS - IDŐSZAKI KIÁLLÍTÁSOK - ANDREA CZÉRE: Capriccio in Time and Space: On the Bicentenary of Giandomenico Tiepolo's Death

hand, the change of approach that questioned the role of copies, the problem involving the subsequent standing of painted copies as well as plaster casts was relegated to the background. The reproductive works were banished from the permanent exhibition, their preservation, conservation and handling - even alongside a minimal programme - lay a heavy burden on the institution for decades, continuing until today. In February 2004, when nearly one third of the above copies were requested for exhibition in the Academy of Fine Arts, an opportunity presented itself for setting to rights in some measure the fate of this collection, which had been undeservingly neglected for already seventy years. The condition of the artworks destined for lending had to be rendered suitable for exhibition and had to be documented appropriately for publication. The exhibited works reflected precisely not only that Balló selected the works of art to be copied with a masterful intuition for quality, but also that he was able to render authentically the painting style of masterpieces of the most diverse styles and eras (fig. 62). The opportunity was provided to display indirectly many of his favourite princes of painting, first and foremost Velázquez and Rembrandt, but alongside some early examples (Jan van Eyck, Master of the Rhineland), the exhibition also allowed insight into how Balló had copied the creations of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance (Giorgione, Raphael, Titian), the Golden Age of the Dutch (Frans Hals, Vermeer van Delft, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Ruysdael, Nicolas Maes, Carel Fabritius), and even of Flemish Baroque (Rubens, Van Dyck). We redeemed an old debt with the opportunity that opened with the catalogue related to the exhibition to present the oeuvre of Ede Balló, a personality filling such a determinant role in the first decades of the history of the Museum of Fine Arts, as well as to compile the inventory of his copies. With this, we would like to extend our thanks to Csaba Nagyházi, director of the Nagyházi Gallery and Auction House, for donating the photo album of Ede Balló that he had preserved, during the preparations to the exhibition, to the Museum of Fine Arts. ANNAMÁRIA GOSZTOLA CAPRICCIO IN TIME AND SPACE: ON THE BICENTENARY OF GIANDOMENICO TIEPOLO'S DEATH 15 October 2004-15 March 2005 Curator: Andrea Czére Andrea Czére, with the assistance of Judit Sebő, Giandomenico Tiepolo: Capriccio in Time and Space, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 2004, 95 pp., Hungarian and English, 54 col. and 5 b&w. ills., ISBN 963 7063 01 3 Technically and thematically, Giandomenico's training is rooted in the great Rococo tradition, primarily in the art of his father, Giambattista Tiepolo. At the same time, the social revolution of the late eighteenth century and the new moral sensitivity of Neoclassicism with its simpler forms and more dramatic tone affected his imagination, style