Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)
NEW PUBLICATIONS - EDITORIAL BOARD: Éva Nyerges, Spanish Paintings. The Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The amplified and in many parts revised English language edition of the Hungarian volume, which had been published ten years earlier, starts with a new introduction summing up the latest research findings on the history of the collection. The volume is arranged chronologically and by schools, but in the case of masters with more than one work included in the book —El Greco, Alonso Cano, Zurbaran —their works dating from different periods are published one after the other, thus somewhat upsetting the chronology. The most important works are accompanied by a detailed description, including their provenance and the most recent research results presented at a professional level in the style of popular science. The book guides readers through the Spanish collection, which is exhibited in the museum's six halls, one cabinet and in the ambulatory. Although the book was written mainly for museum-goers, it is a useful volume for professionals, since it publishes the entire list of works in the Museum of Fine Arts currently identified as Spanish. The Spanish works stored in the museum's vaults were published for the first time, in the appendix along with colour illustrations, and a list of paintings previously believed to be Spanish is also included. The indices of works at the end of the book —arranged by inventory number and by the names of the masters —and an updated bibliography published after Andor Pigler's catalogue from 1967 provide fundamental data. The most important new aquisitions of the Spanish collection originate from the Middle Ages and the 17 th century. The central panel of the Saint Andrew altar by the Master of Retascón was linked with the other panels of the altar by Eva Nyerges. The museum is proud to have the two doors of a retablo of Garcia de Benabarre's altar in Montanyana depicting Saint Peter and Saint Paul, as well as Morales' Ecce Homo as valuable new works in its collection. Another new aquisition, an infanta portrait by Bartolome Gonzalez, dated 1618, w r as also published for the first time in Hungary, filling an old gap in the collection, which had no works represent-
