Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - AXEL VÉCSEY: The Enigmatic Man: Portrait of a Man with Blue-Green Eyes
man with raw muscles. The last painting of the exhibition communicated the message of unattainable heavenly beauty: the trompe Voeil by the Swiss Jean-Etienne Liotard, a work that at first sight creates the illusion of being a relief, cheating the beholder and concluding the exhibition in this playful way. The interior, created by NARMER Architectural Studio, arranged the theatre-set-like banners into a corridor leading to the works of Poussin, and the characters of the mythological stories depicted in the bacchanal paintings w r ere blown up and explained on the "side-wings" of this corridor. Márton Orosz IV THE ENIGMATIC MAN: PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH BLUE-GREEN EYES June 2, 2006 -July 16, 2006 Curator: Axel Vecsey AXEL VÊCSEY, THE ENIGMATIC MAN: TITIAN: PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH BLUE-GREEN EYES. BUDAPEST 2006. HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH TEXT. 80 PP.. 18 COL. ILLS.. ISBN 963 7063 29 3 The fourth chamber exhibition of the "Geniuses and Masterpieces" series focused on Tiziano's masterpiece, the Portrait of a Man with Blae-Green Eyes (also known as the English Youth), lent by the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. There could have been several ways of putting this work into context; the curator of the exhibition, selecting from the pictures of the Museum's own collections, chose the point of view which in these circumstances would produce the most illustrative pictures of the highest quality. This was to underline the impact of Titian's artistic innovation within the history of Italian portrait painting. Presented with the opportunity to place such a characteristic and lively portrait at the centre of the exhibition we tried to express its unique features through visual rather verbal means, hence we built up the series of paintings to form short linear "stories". This restilted in a compact and concentrated chamber exhibition, displaying only ten artworks, in which we wished to trace the development of a single artistic tool
