Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - ERNŐ MAROSI: Sigismundus Rex et Imperator: Art and Culture During the Time of Sigismund of Luxemburg, 1387-1437
SIGISMUNDUS REX ET IMPERATOR: ART AND CULTURE DURING THE TIME OF SIGISMUND OF LUXEMBURG 1387-1437 Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts: 18 March, 2006 - 18 June, 2006 Luxemburg, Musée national d'histoire et d'art: 13 July, 2006 - 15 October, 2006 Chief curator: Imre Takács Curators: Zsombor Jékely, Szilárd Papp, and Györgyi Poszier IMRE TAKÁCS ET AL.. SIGISMUNDUS REX EE IMPERATOR. KUNST UND KULTUR ZUR ZEEL SIGISMUNDS VON LUXEMBURG 1387-1437. MAINZ. PHILIPP VON ZABERN. 2006. 87 AUTHORS. 733 IT., SEVERAL ILLUSTRATIONS. HUNGARIAN, GERMAN AND FRENCH ED., ISBN 978 3 8053 3641 3 (HARDCOVER); 978 3 8053 3639 0 (PAPERBACK) SZILÁRD PAPP. SIGISMUND OE LUXEMBURG: ART AND CULTURE 1387-1437. EXHIBITION GUIDE. MAINZ. PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2006. FRENCH, GERMAN. ENGLISH AND SLOVAKIAN ED.. 9c, PPS.. ISBN 963 7065 20 X SIGISMUND VON LUXEMBURG. EIN KAISER IN EUROPA. ED. MICHEL PAULY AND FRANÇOIS REINERT. PROCEEDINGS Ol THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "SIGISMUND DE LUXEMBOURG, ROI DE HONGRIE ET EMPEREUR", LUXEMBURG, 8-10 |UNE. 2005. MAINZ. PHILIPP VON ZARERN. 2006. ISBN 978 3 8053 3625 3 At first sight the rex et imperátor title does not correspond to any political reality, it rather serves as a label —counting on the museum goers' very basic knowledge of Latin —that could accompany the exhibition title in any language. This title, however, takes its reader back to the realm of Hungarian historical ballads, to an emblematic poem of the Hungarian nineteenthcentury poet János Arany, being the verbatim translation of his words: "Sigismund, the king, the emperor." These words convey the key concept of the exhibition: its complexity in itself and in its present day context. One of these historical complexities arose from the medieval political theory that the royal title rex imperátor in regno sno refers on one hand to the political union created by the identity of the ruler's person (Sigismund as king of Hungary and king of Bohemia), and on the other hand to his being the holy Roman emperor. This duplicity ultimately unveils a tension as well, that lay between the national/individual and the universal, not only as a political concept but manifest also in art historical writings. The nineteenth century exacerbated this distinction between the national and universal. The differences in facing this issue are reflected in the two Sigismund exhibitions, since parallel to the Budapest exhibition Prague also prepared the Czech interpretation (New York, 2005 and Prague, 2006). In the
