Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)

TERÉZ GERSZI: Frans Floris' Early Drawings in Budapest

7 F IIA N S FLORIS. THF REWAKING OF THE MUSES AFTER WAR, BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS almost two-dimensional representation in the earlier work is later replaced by a greater emphasis on spatial depiction in the grouping of the figures and the background. The proportions of the figures also changed: first the artist applied the elongated figures but in the later work their depiction is more real-life and closer to Renaissance taste, with sculpturesque bodies and shapely limbs, in contrast to the scrawny arms and unelaborated hands seen in the drawing. However, the drawing

—as well as its companion piece

—creates a peculiar, bittersweet, indi-