Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 102-103. (Budapest, 2005)
ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - A 2005. ÉV - JÁNOS VÉGH: Dürer and His Contemporaries: Monumental Woodcuts by Outstanding Artists. The Triumph of Emperor Maximilian I
DÜRER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: MONUMENTAL WOODCUTS BY OUTSTANDING ARTISTS. THE TRIUMPH OF EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I 1 July-9 October 2005 Curator: Szilvia Bodnár DÜRER LIND SEINE ZEITGENOSSEN. RIESEN HOLZSCHNITTE HERVORRAGENDER KÜNSTIER. DER TRIUMPH KAISER MAXIMILIAN E, CD. SZILVIA BODNÁR, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. BUDAPEST 2005. HUNGARIAN AND GERMAN TEXT, 101 PP.. 46 B&W. ILLS.. ISBN 963 7063 03 X SZILVIA BODNÁR. DÜRER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: MONUMENTAI WOODCUTS BY OUTSTANDING ARTISTS: TRIUMPH OF EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN /., MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. BUDAPEST 2005. ENGLISH TEXT. 34 PP., 19 B&W. ILLS.. ISBN 963 7063 03 X In the Collection of Prints and Drawings of the Museum of Fine Arts, there are many works of Dürer and his contemporaries: Altdorfer and Burgkmair, who also often had commissions from Emperor Maximilian —and this formed the basis of the 2005 endeavour. It was no small task, as two years earlier the marvellous Dürer exhibition of the Albertina, holder of the greatest part of the artist's works, was still on. Given Vienna's proximity to Budapest, we had some fears that for an audience able to see both exhibitions, the endeavour of the Museum of Fine Arts might seem to be on a small scale. The concept, however, was formulated so well, that Budapest was able to stand the test: despite the fact that the Budapest exhibition presented fewer works of art, it attained a level of completeness within a small fraction of the oeuvre that surpassed that in the Imperial city. The curator of the exhibition focused on one particular feature from the rich production of Diirer's and his contemporaries' drawings: the laudation of Emperor Maximilian. The Emperor himself also appears, but the core of the exhibition is provided by a series of hundreds of woodcuts representing imperial triumph. This scenery was much liked by contemporary Humanism, with its reminiscences of the triumphal processions of Antiquity and ancient triumphal arches. It is hard to define the
