Csornay Boldizsár - Dobos Zsuzsa - Varga Ágota - Zakariás János szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 97. (Budapest, 2002)

The Year 2002

period marks the beginning of the neo-Romantic movement Norvég tájak hangulata the Norwegian version of interA rieskumi norvég művésztelep national symbolism (fig. 74). Tunes in a Landscape The study of nature has Fleskum: a Norwegian Artists'Colony always been very important to Norwegian artists and it is often romantically portrayed. For many years Norwegian artists who wanted to be more than amateurs had been obliged to attend art academies and private classes abroad, and this meant that they were strongly influenced by the styles in other countries, especially Germany, where most Norwegian artists studied. The Fleskum painters also gained much from their years abroad, but now during 74. the Fleskum period they began to explore the Norwegian landscape, seeking to express mood in a naturalistic idiom. They incorporated modern French Realism into Norway's Romantic pictorial tradition, and after the Fleskum summer, open-air painting became the predominant trend in Norwegian art. I. J. TURNING OF THE YEAR AT THE AGE OF THE PHARAOHS CHAMBER EXHIBITION CURATORS OF THE EXHIBITION! HEDVIG GYŐRY, IRÉN VOZIL In 2002 the public visiting the Museum was invited by the glass cases representing curiosities to get acquainted with some items of the Egyptian collection related to medicine. This demonstration focused on an important element of the turn-of-year conceptions in Egyptian religion, concentrating on the feasts. The ancient Egyptian year consisted of 365 days: 5 "additional" days completed the twelve months of 30 days each. Tradition maintained that the 5 children of goddess Nut were bom in this phase of the year: Osiris, the "aged" Horus from Letopolis, Isis, Nephthys and Seth. The gods were virtually present at the exhibition through their small statuettes used anciently as amulets. The five days were for the Egyptians also the time of the "plague of the year", which - according to their belief - was hailed down on them by the goddess Sahmet, also presented in the accompaniment of her mythic family