Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - ADRIÁNA LANTOS: ...And Then the Incas Arrived - Treasures from Peru Before the Spanish Conquest
...AND THEN THE INCAS ARRIVED: TREASURES FROM PERU BEFORE THE SPANISH CONQUEST 18 May, 2007 - 9 September, 2007 (extended to 30 September) Curators: János Gyarmati (Museum of Ethnography) and Adriána Lantos ...ÉS AKKOR MEGÉRKEZTEK AZ INKÁK. KI NGSE K A SPAN YOl HÓDÍTÁS Hl 7 II PERUBÓL [...AND THEN THE INCAS ARRIVED: TREASURES EROM PERU BEFORE THE STAN ISII CONQUEST], ED. |ANOS GYARMATI AND ADRI ANA LANTOS. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. BUDAPEST 2007. HUNGARIAN TEXT. 380 PP.. 394 COL. ILLS.. ISBN 978 963 7063 41 1 I ...AND TH EN THE INCAS ARRIVED: TREASURES FROM PERU BEFORETHE SPANISH CONQUEST. ED. JÁNOS GYARMATI AND ADRI ANA LANTOS. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BUDAPEST 2007. ENGLISH TEXT. 88 PP.. 35 COL. ILLS.. ISBN 978 963 7063 42 8 The exhibition conjured up ancient Peru through the display of some 320 artefacts presenting the aesthetic, artistic and cosmological-religious development of the main Andean societies from the mother culture Chavín de Huántar (900 BC-200 AD) to the flourishing of the Inca Empire (1470-1532 AD) mirrored by the objects they used and manifested in individual stylistic characteristics. The exhibition housed in the Museum of Fine Arts was the Hungarian adaptation of the exhibition arranged by the Museo de America entitled "Y llegaron los Incas. Unitiad en la diversidad" (2006). It followed the original exhibition concept but expanded the number of artefacts by one and a half times thus lending it a new interpretation. Up until this point two other exhibitions of noteworthy significance had been organised in Hungary on this theme: the first one in 1975 entitled "Golden Treasures from Peru in the Hungarian National Museum", and the second one in 1987 bearing the title "Spaniards in the New World. The Golden Treasures of the Museum of the Americas, Madrid" hosted by the Hungarian National Gallery. Twenty years have passed since the last exhibition and it was therefore thought timely and appropriate to organise a comprehensive, enjoyable and quality exhibition for the public and experts alike. A significant proportion of the complementary artefacts were put at the Museum of Fine Arts' disposal by the Museo de America but the exhibition was also enriched by pieces on loan from the Museo Arqueológico Larco Herrera in Lima, the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart, the Museo Prehistórico de Valencia, two Hungarian public collections —the Budapest Museum of Ethnography and the György Thúry Museum in Nagykanizsa—as well as from a private collector.
