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

2 INTERIOR VIEW OF IMF EXHIBITION to create an artificial effect rather than an amusing one. It is because of this that, similarly to former installations, the clearly distinguishable character of the different periods and local trends of Italian painting served as a compass for the distribution of the material into different rooms. In regard to the content, the ten exhibition rooms are the following: Florentine and Sienese Trecento; Gothic painting of around 1400; the Quattrocento in Tuscany, Umbria and the Marche; the Quattrocento in Venice, Ferrara, Lombardy and Piedmont; altarpieces and other, mainly large-size pictures from the first half of the sixteenth-century; Boltraffio and other followers of Leonardo, Giorgione and Giorgionism, Raphael and his followers; Mannerist cabinet pictures; Venetian Cinquecento and Tuscan-Roman Mannerism; the Seicento in Bologna, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Florence and Siena; the Settecento in Venice, Bologna and Lombardy. As an eleventh room, the hall of French painting, closely linked to Italy and especially to Rome, was placed where three Italian rooms cross. The Baroque Hall on the ground floor, which was decorated with paintings in 2004 by Miklós Mojzer, is closely related to the Seicento room, although only in regard to its material on display, as the two rooms are not physically linked. The masterpieces exhibited in the Baroque Hall

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