Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - VILMOS TÁTRAI: Titian and the Venetian Madonna

GENIUSES AND MASTERPIECES A series of six chamber exhibitions To celebrate the centenary of the opening of the Museum of Fine Arts, Director-General László Baán invited the world's leading museums to join us in our celebration. The idea emerged to hold a series of exhibitions in which the holdings of the Museum would be organized around central masterpieces lent for this occasion. I TITIAN AND THE VENETIAN MADONNA December 1, 2005 -January 15, 2006 Curator: Vilmos Tátrai VILMOS TÁTRAI. TITIAN AND THE VENETIAN MADONNA. BUDAPEST 2005. HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH TEXT, 64 PP., 17 COL. ILLS.. ISBN 963 7063 14 5 A rare event served as the starting point for the organization of the first chamber exhibition: a painting turned up in Budapest that can be attributed to the hand of Titian. The painting was sold at auction at the Nagyházi Galéria on 24 May, 2005 under lot number 116 and was SLibsequently restored by Miklós Szentkirályi. It was published by Vilmos Tátrai and identified as a work by Titian painted around 1540 and preserved during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the picture gallery of the prince of Modena.

1 Next to this painting, which combines a new artistic style with Roman grandezza, was placed another work by Titian, painted some ten years earlier, which completes 13 TITIAN, THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH SAINT PAUL. BUDAPEST. PRIVATE COLLECTION