Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - MIKLÓS GÁLOS: A Passion Panel Resurrected: The Restoration of Maarten Van Heemskerck's The Lamentation

This exhibition was not only the next part of an ongoing series but it also continued an old tradition. Let me mention Edith Hoffmann again, who was a key figure at the Museum of Fine Arts. Apart from being the author of numerous studies and volumes, her great achievement was the catalogue series devoted to the exhibitions of the Department of Prints and Drawings as their only testament. There are about forty of them altogether, made between 1922 and 1944. They are simple catalogues with short forewords but attest to a vast amount of knowledge and culture that was a kind of security for the exhibitions organised for the public. It is a unique feature of the profession that such a tradition could live on at the Department of Prints and Drawings: the secret has been passed down to us. Some of the great personalities that helped make this happen were Jolán Balogh, Dénes Pataky, Iván Fenyő, and of course Teréz Gerszi, who was the head of the department for a long time and whose birthday was celebrated by her friends, students and all those who admire her on the evening of the exhibition's opening day. Árpád Mikó A PASSION PANEL RESURRECTED: THE RESTORATION OF MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCR'S THE LAMENTATION 16 September, 2007 - 22 September, 2007 Restorer: András Fáy Curator: Miklós Gálos The City Mission week in Budapest in September 2007 was a major event for the Catholic Church of Hungary. The programmes of the mission organised with the motto "...to give you a future and a hope" were accompanied by the concerts and chamber exhibitions of the Sacred Arts Week. The Museum of Fine Arts took this opportunity to present the public with the most spectacular restoration of recent years from its rich material of Christian art. After making infrared reflectograms of Heemskerck's panel depicting the lamentation of Christ, five figures that had been hidden by the overpainting of the background were revealed. The restoration work revealed