Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából 29. (2001)

A BUDAI KIRÁLYI PALOTA MŰVÉSZETI, KULTURÁLIS SZEREPE - Garas Klára: A budai vár egykori gyűjteménye. Képek a Szépművészeti Múzeumban 381-410

65. Jacob Toorenvliet: Falusi zenészek. Vászon, olaj, 43,5 * 34 cm, lt. sz.: 331. 66. Alessandro Turchi: Tankréd és Erminia. Vászon, olaj, 99 x 133 cm, lt. sz.: 477. 67. Jacopo da Valenza (G. Bellini után): Mária gyermekével. Fa, olaj, 83 x 60,6 cm, lt. sz.: 73. 68. Antonio Vassilacchi: Bacchus diadalmenete. Vászon, olaj, 112,5 x 150,5 cm, lt. sz.: 972. 69. Velencei festő, XVI. század: Krisztus és a házasságtörő nő. Vászon, olaj, 104,5 x 136 cm, lt. sz.: 1054. 70. Velencei festő, XVII. század: Nő rózsával. Vászon, olaj, 50 x 40,5 cm, lt. sz.: 891. 71. Velencei festő (G. Cariani), XVI. század: Fiatal nő képmása, „ Violante". Vászon, olaj, 64,5 x 60 cm, lt. sz.: 84. 72. Velencei festő (Tiziano?), XVI. század: Férfiképmás. Vászon, olaj, 48 x 40 cm, lt. sz.: 983. A budai várpalota gyűjteményéből a Szépművészeti Múzeumban 73. Andries Danielsz (A. Boschaert?): Virágok vázában. Réz, olaj, 56,5 x 35 cm, lt. sz.: 65.27. 74. Georg Flegel: Csendélet sajttal és edénnyel. Vászon, olaj, 27 x 46 cm, lt. sz.: 91.1. 75. Frans Geffels: Itáliai táj romokkal. Vászon, olaj, 95 x 92 cm, lt. sz.: 71.19. 76. Artemisia Gentileschi: Jáhel és Sisera. Vászon, olaj, 86 x 125 cm, lt. sz.: 75.11. 77. Lucas van Leyden után: Foghúzás. Fa, olaj, 33,5 x 27 cm, lt. sz.: 51.774. 78. Német vagy németalföldi festő, XVII. század: Farsangi jelenet (Február). Vászon, olaj, 93,7 x 123 cm, lt. sz.: 68.7. 79. Erasmus Quellinus: Achilles Lykomedes leányaival. Vászon, olaj, 114 x 164 cm, lt. sz.: 71.22. 80. Jacopo Palma Vecchio: Koszorús fejű ifjú képmása. Vászon, olaj, 38,7 x 29 cm, lt. sz.: 3460. KLÁRA GARAS THE ONE-TIME ART COLLECTION OF THE ROYAL PALACE. PICTURES IN THE BUDAPEST MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Summary The elaborate and vicissitudinous story of the royal palace's art collection begins with the renovation of the royal residence, and to a certain extent, with the reorganisation of the institutions the palace accommodated. During the reign of Maria Theresa and Joseph II, many valuable items from the imperial art collection in Vienna and Bratislava (then Pozsony) castle were transported to Buda. Despite the fact that recently two inventories from that period were found, little is actually known about the works that constituted the collection. Descriptions dating from the 19th-century sing praises of the paintings adorning the halls of the Palatine Joseph's palace, but give no particulars whatsoever. During the 1848/49 war of independence the building housing the collection was damaged, but —so recently discovered documents claim— the paintings were carried off to safety. Because the paintings were in bad shape and had "lost purpose," the imperial court executives in the palace decided to get rid of them. Some of the paintings were returned to Vienna, and the rest auctioned off in Buda in 1856. No inventory has come down to us of the paintings bargained away, but it can be established from the collector's marks identified on the few that ended up in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and other famous foreign art collections that they must have included some significant masterpieces. This fact is supported by the more fortunate portion of the Buda collection. Some of the paintings transported to the Buda in the 18th century from the imperial art collections were displayed in the Imperial Chamberlain's palace. When in 1848 this building was occupied by the Ministry of Finance, the secretary of the new minister, at Lajos Kossuth's command, made arrangements for the paintings decorating the former Chamberlain's quarters to be moved to the National Museum. An inventory was drawn up, and the paintings eventually made their way to the Museum of Fine Arts, opened in 1906. The collection includes many an internationally acclaimed work of art, such as Lorenzo Lotto's "Apollo and the Muses," Palma Vecchio

's "Betrothed Couple," Albrecht Dürer's "Portrait of a Man," two Salvator Rosa landscapes, to mention but the most famous ones. The origins of the paintings of the royal palace, now in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, can be traced back to the most significant art collections of the 17th century, such as the Archduke Leopold William's collections in Brussels and Vienna, the English Duke Hamilton's collection, as well as several Venetian art collections.