Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2006. ÉV - AXEL VÉCSEY: The Enigmatic Man: Portrait of a Man with Blue-Green Eyes
of key importance: the reasons for and the consequences of widening the size of the cut, that is how the human figure is represented even more is its entirety. The point of departure was a portrait by Dürer, representative of the descriptive, northern portrait-style, with very narrow cut in a bust-form. The following stages were illustrated by the paintings of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Giorgione, Girolamo Romanino, and Sebastiano del Piombo. The line of thought culminated in the central Titian work, after which came works by Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto and IVloroni, showing how the results of the experiments on the more complete cut gradually became manifest. Although the impression provided by this approach was of course simplistic, it nevertheless suited the style of a chamber exhibition that does not allow much more complex conceptualisation. What could not fit in the explanatory material next to the paintings was described in detail in the exhibition catalogue. In this guide the curator discussed the shifts in the development of portrait painting, and he also wrote about the immediate circumstances that inspired it, i.e. the various influences of courtly culture. This context w r as also emphasized in the exhibition itself, through the texts written on the banners that called attention to certain details of the pictures, and through the reproductions of single sections of them, shown with the help of blown-up photos. In addition to the ten exhibited paintings w r e displayed a master copy of the Portrait of a Man with Blue-Green Eyes painted by Ede Balló, a professor at the School for Technical Drawing at the end of the nineteenth century, which evoked the former "museum-brown" colour of the original painting before restoration. A superb job was done in staging the exhibition by NARMER Architectural Studio, and especially by Mariann Derencsér who followed the plans from the earliest stages, and with her ideas and insights contributed greatly to the design of the display. Thanks are also due to Judit Tóth for her unfailing skills in all matters pertaining to organisation. TITIAN. PORTRAIT OF AMAN WITH BLUE-GREEN EYES. FtORENCE. GALLERIA TAI ATINA Axel Vécsey
