Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - VILMOS TÁTRAI: The New Permanent Exhibition of the Italian Collection of the Old Masters' Gallery
THE ANNUAL REPORT 2006 THE NEW PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF THE ITALIAN COLLECTION OF THE OLD MASTERS' GALLERY Curators: Ilona Balogh, Ildikó Ember, Agnes Szigethi, \ r ilmos Tátrai, and Axel Vecsey The new permanent exhibition of the Italian Collection was opened 7 December, 2006. The number of Italian paintings of the Gallery now exceeds one thousand. The richness and diversity of the Italian collection is attributable to the fact that the collections that the museum has acquired —the Esterházy, Pyrker, Ipolyi and Pálffy collections as well as the material that came from Vienna via Pressburg to the Buda Castle, and finally to the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest —have all included numerous excellent Italian works. Furthermore, Károly Pulszky's purchases of around 1890, and the subsequent acquisitions and gifts, also contained a great number of works by Italian artists. It is possible that not even professional circles in the art world are appraised of the fact that in the second half of the museum's century-long history, i.e. in the period spanning from 1965 to the present, the Old Masters' Gallery was enriched with no less than 223 Italian paintings including several works which any museum in the world with the same collection profile would heartily welcome. From among the authors of the 223 works entered into the inventory in the last fifty years it is enough to refer to the following impressive names of Taddeo Gaddi, Liberale da Verona, Girolamo da Treviso, Defendente Ferrari, Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Giampietrino, Giovanni Puligo, Girolamo Romanino, Sodorna, Battista Naldini, Michèle di Ridolfo, Aurelio Lomi, Bernardo Strozzi, Valerio Castello, xYndrea Celesti, Francesco Furini, Pietro Liberi, Artemisia Gentileschi, Marcantonio Franceschini, Giovan Battista Caracciolo, Girolamo Troppa, Luca Giordano, Niccolö Renieri, Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Sebastiano Ricci, Corrado Giaquinto, Giuseppe Zais, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, Gaspare Diziani, Antonio Canal, Alessandro Longhi, and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.
