Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - ÁRPAD MIKÓ: From Mantegna to Hogarth: Virtuoso Engravers of Four Centuries. The History of Printmaking II.
FROM MANTEGNA TO HOGARTH: VIRTUOSO ENGRAVERS OF FOUR CENTURIES. THE HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING II 7 September, 2007 - 27 January, 2008 Curators: Szilvia Bodnár and Teréz Gerszi FROM MANTEGNA TO HOGARTH: VIRTUOSO ENGRAVERS OF FOURCENTURIES. THE HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING II, ED. TEREZ GERSZI AND SZILVIA BODNÁR. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. BUDAPEST 2007, HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH TEXT. 175 PP.. 78 B&W ILLS.. ISBN 978 963 7063 46 6 The Museum of Fine Arts' Department of Prints and Drawings launched a series of exhibitions with the aim of familiarising visitors with the methods of printmaking. Woodcuts were featured in 2002 and copper engravings came next in 2008. The one hundred and eighty items displayed at the exhibition provided an overview of four centuries, following the stylistic periods of art history. The selection was organised according to the national schools of printmaking and the interlocking succession of these determine the chronological order. A HungarianEnglish catalogue was made for the exhibition with about half of the items being large, exact reproductions. The publication's introductory section contains five essays: Szilvia Bodnár, Zoltán Kárpáti, Teréz Gerszi, Judit Sebő, and Zsuzsa Gonda on the history of German, Italian, Netherlandish, French and English copper engraving, respectively. The essays were written in a clear style and follow the most recent findings of scholarly literature: this comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of the genre has always guaranteed the high standard of the exhibitions organised by the Museum of Fine Arts' Department of Prints and Drawings. The earliest period of copperplate engraving was represented by fifteenth century German works. Only engravings survived from several famous artists, including E. S. Master, Israhel van Meckenem, while paintings and drawings were also left behind by others, such as Schongauer and Dürer. These artists are well known by those well versed not only in art in general but also in Hungarian art, since many of their engravings provided the model for the painters of Hungarian winged altars. Edith Hoffmann, the former head of the Museum of Fine Arts' Department of Prints and Drawings, collected these borrowings in a study published in 1937. The Germans were followed by the Italians and the new method appeared almost simultaneously on the two sides of the Alps. Not a single hand engraved work can be found among the prints of Mantegna, one of the artists in the exhibition's title. On the other hand, Marcantonio Raimondi, who made engravings based on Raphael's work, often worked from sketches and
