Kárpáti Zoltán - Liptay Éva - Varga Ágota szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 101. (Budapest, 2004)
ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - A 2004. ÉV - TEMPORARY EXEIIBITIONS - IDŐSZAKI KIÁLLÍTÁSOK - ANDREA CZÉRE: The Esterházy Heritage: 17th-Century Italian Drawings at Budapest's Museum of Fine Arts
60. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino, The Triumph of David, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts the Roman school, the works of Giovanni Baglione, Pier Francesco Mola, Pietro da Cortona, Carlo Maratta, Giacinto Calandrucci and Guglielmo Cortese deserve special mention. From the circle of the Lombard artists, the works of Daniele Crcspi and Giulio Cesare Procaccini preserved in our collection count as a distinguished accomplishment, also from the perspective of their entire oeuvres. Among the works from Genoa, which are modest in number similarly to the Lombard grouping, those of Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione are intensive, and their use of colour, which is less customary in Italian graphic art, is consequently the most attractive. Among the most typical representatives of improvisational pen-and-ink drawings, we can include the graphic art of Salvator Rosa of the Naples school, also appreciated in Rome. Numerous drawings and sketches found today also served for the preparation of frescoes and oil paintings. Annibale Carracci's two celebrated figure studies, the Bacchante and the Cupid, were prepared for the ceiling piece of the Palazzo Farnese Gallery, for the triumphal procession of Bacchus and Ariadne filling the central field of the fresco, and they are included among the most exhibited and best-known artworks in the collection. Domcnichino's classicist angel's head is a partial study for the fresco of Saint Cecily in the Polet Chapel of the San Luigi dei Francesi Church in Rome, while Guido Reni's early, Caravaggiesque The Crucifixion of Saint Peter is a composition study in connection with his painting in the Vatican Gallery. One of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglionc's drawings, Allegory in Honour of the Mantuan Ruling Couple, is a preliminary study for one of the artist's paintings in a private collection in Genoa.
