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

ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - A 2004. ÉV - CONVENTION - KONFERENCIA - ANDREA CZÉRE: IXth Convention of the International Advisory Committee of Keepers of Public Collections of Graphic Art

Following its own traditions, the convention consisted of two kinds of events: presentations and visits to museums. These latter were paid to the prominent exhibitions and collections of graphic arts. The addresses given by the speakers at the conference included reviews of important events in the lives of individual collections, such as accounts telling of significant additions and presentations of new publications. One such event covered was the housing of Dresden's collection of drawings and prints in a new building, the recently restored Rezidenzschloss. The new premises satisfy both academic requirements and the standards of the protection of historic buildings. As for new acquisitions, the purchase of the Osio Collection by the Istituto Nazionale della Grafica in Rome was celebrated by all participants. Among the new publications, the catalogue of The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus edited by the British Museum and the Inventory of the Print Collection of King John V. of Portugal published by the Bibliothèque Nationale were shown, while in the case of the Budapest Museum, the Complete Catalogue of 17th Century Italian Drawings was presented. The discussion on restoration problems was especially concentrated on those concerned with the lending and borrowing of miniatures on parchment that require additional protection, and the possibilities and necessary conditions for their safe transport. The conference offered an opportunity for the Museum to agree on an exchange of exhibitions. The Louvre promised the Museum an exhibition of French drawings for 2008, in return for which the Museum will send an exhibition of sixteenth-century Netherlandish works. The Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart offered an exhibition of German Renaissance drawings, while for its part the Museum will exhibit the finest pieces from the Majovszky Collection in the Stuttgart museum in 2007. In honour of the conference, the Museum of Fine Arts displayed the finest seventeenth-century Italian drawings and prints in the Esterházy Collection, while the Christian Museum in Esztergom staged an exhibition of landscape etchings by Antoni Waterloo. In Budapest, participants at the conference visited the Hungarian National Gallery and the National Széchényi Library's Manuscript Collection; on excursions to the countryside, they viewed museums and galleries in Esztergom, Eger and Szentendre. ANDREA CZÉRE