Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - AXEL VÉCSEY: El Greco, Velázquez, Goya: Five Centuries of Spanish Masterpieces

4 INTERIOR VIEW OF THE EXHIBITION underlying reasons behind the artists' application of particular compositional devices. This installation also highly facilitated an understanding of the other, outstanding retable panels in the room, such as Bartolome Bermejo's superb Death of the Virgin from Berlin. With its accurate understanding and creative interpretation of the Netherlandish models, Bermejo's panel served as a reference point in the room. All the other fifteenth-century panels also reveal a knowledge of Netherlandish painting, but they are far from being firmly rooted in it. Local traditions appear to have played a more prominent role than what is usually acknowledged. The iconic image of Christ Establishing the Eucharist (Budapest) by Vicente Macip Comes is another work that became more readily accessible thanks to the installation. The panel once formed the tabernacle door of an altarpiece, which was most likely that of the Bocarente parish church in Valencia. It was now shown taken out of its nineteenth-century frame, in an arrangement that also allowed a view of its elaborately decorated reverse side. The secular genre was represented by the Alcira Master's enigmatic Allegory, the instalment of which was again demonstrative of its probable original function, i.e. a virginal lid.