Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 92-93.(Budapest, 2000)

The Museum of Fine Arts in 1999

event: the young members of the vocal ensemble Voces Aequales from Budapest performed before a large audience old and contemporary vocal music from their recently issued record entitled Apocalypse. Exhibition on occasion of the 400

th anniversary of the birth of Van Dyck 8 April - 15 May, Renaissance Hall Exhibition by Annamária Gosztola The work in the focus of this temporary exhibition was Anthony van Dyck's Portrait of a Man and His Wife, one of the newly restored paintings from the Old Masters' Gallery (fig. 80). This early work of the artist, painted between 1616-18 under the influence of his master, Rubens, came to the Museum from the Esterházy collection. From the point of view of the artist's stylistic development, it is a characteristic work of the transitory phase between the production of the youth formed in the intellectual circle of Rubens in Antwerp and that of the celebrated portrait painter of the English aristocracy. The restoration of the picture was made possible by the financial support of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, provided in exchange for the loan of the work to their exhibition. Portraits by Vieira da Silva and Árpád Szenes 13 April - 2 May, Doric Pyramid Exhibition by Ferenc Tóth The exhibition presented a selection of portraits and self portraits painted in the 1930s and 1940s by the artist-couple who worked first in Portugal, then in Brasil. The 29 paintings were lent to the exhibition by Portuguese collections (fig. 81). Haifa Century of Painting in Trieste 8 May - June 6, Marble Hall Exhibition by Katalin Papp This exhibition introduced visitors to the painting of Trieste at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth. In the beginning of this time period, painting in Trieste was influenced by the art of Munich, than that of Paris. After World War I, it came under the influence of the artistic life of the Italian state, especially that of Rome. The exhibited paintings were lent by the Revoltella Museum, opened in 1872 from the legacy of a collector of Venetian origin, Pasquale Revoltella (17951869). The museum later became the leading institution in collecting art from Trieste. Animal Mummies from the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities June, Lower Level Vestibule Exhibition by Irén Vozil and Péter Hubai