Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)
ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - ANDREA CZÉRE: A Celebration and Volume of Studies in Honour of Teréz Gerszi
It became abundantly clear in the celebratory speeches that in both Hungary and abroad Teréz is held in equally high public esteem and indeed loved, and so many people wished to contribute to the celebratory album that we opted for a recently introduced layout for the book which made it possible to publish a large number of articles: its structure follows that of catalogues, i.e. it consists of entries, but the drawings included in the book were not exhibited, making the volume a kind of virtual catalogue. The seventy-five entries of the book mainly deal with thus far unpublished works of art and related new research results. Following Teréz Gerszi's main area of research, they fundamentally concern drawings although the volume includes some specialties —Egyptian works of art, the coloured decorations drawn on coffins, ancient vase drawings and underdrawings of paintings —that could only be called drawings in a restricted sense. The artworks discussed in the book were by sixty-five artists. Included among them are those representing Teréz Gerszi's main period of research, i.e. the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the well-known and predominantly German and Netherlandish masters active at that time, such as Paul Bril, Hans von Aachen, Abraham Bloemaert, Jan Brueghel, Denys Calvaert, Egidius Sadeler, Johann Rottenhammer, Jacques de Gheyn, Jacob Hoefnagel, Hendrick Goltzius, Pieter Stevens, Paulus van Vianen, Jan Pynas, and Rembrandt, as well as works by many other artists. The places where these drawings are preserved form a network all over Europe and America and chiefly follow the path along which Teréz carried out her research: from the Vatican Apostolic Library to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden, the Louvre in Paris, the Uffizi in Florence and the National Gallery in Budapest. The overwhelming majority of the seventy-four authors who contributed to this book are museum heads and museologists working in cities in Europe and America with whom Teréz nurtured good professional ties over the decades. The works that are published in this volume are preserved in museums and drawing collections worldwide:
