Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - ZOLTÁN KÁRPÁTI: On the Jubilee Album
ON THE JUBILEE ALBUM MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 100. MASTERPIECES FROM THE COLLECTION. ED. ANDREA CZÉRE. BUDAPEST 2006. 352 PP.. 30 INTERPOLATED PICTURES. 155 FULL-PACE COl . ILLS. ISBN 10 963 7063 35 8. THE HUNGARIAN EDITION WAS PUBLISHED AT SAME TIME. ANOTHER VERSION OF THIS VOLUME WITH A SHORTER INTRODUCTION WAS ALSO PRODUCED IN HUNGARIAN AND IN ENGLISH. In addition to the jubilee exhibitions of 2006, the Museum of Fine Arts celebrated its centenary with an album representing the remarkable masterpieces of its collections. This large, impressive volume including full-page colour-plates filled a decade long deficiency. In 1987, a similar book, representing the whole collection of the miLseum and edited by Klára Garas, was published by Corvina Publishing House. The fact that it ran into several editions and was translated into many languages was ample proof of the popularity of this kind of book. Two other reasons justifying the existence of the present album were the much better quality of the reproductions, thanks to continual developments in printing technology, and the need to summarize several new results of the last few years. The editor of the album decided that although it would contain fewer pieces, she would nevertheless allocate far more space to the analysis of the masterpieces selected rather than just a few lines of description as in the previous volume. She was the first in the history of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts to involve almost the entire curatorial staff in the work, and in addition to this she utilised the skills of outside experts on numerous occasions. This album was compiled by 41 authors, contains 155 short essays, and represents 162 works, thus in comparison to the previous works, it is much richer in information and provides a wdder context for the masterpieces of the Museum of Fine Arts. The works were not classified according to nations, schools or collections,
