János Eisler

János Eisler

JÁNOS EISLER (Budapest, 1942), museologist and art historian, focusing on Central European Gothic and Italian Renaissance Art. He is the author of several monographs (Pál Lőcsei, 1975; Stephan Lochner, 1984; Rembrandt and 17th Century Dutch Painting, 2005) and a great number of scholarly articles published in the Bulletin du Musée des Beaux-Arts, Acta Historiae Artium, Ars Hungarica, etc.

FROM CARAVAGGIO TO CANALETTO – AND ART COLLECTING IN HUNGARY

The tone of the exhibition is striking from the off. Upon entering the first hall, visitors in thrall to the conventional cliché that Baroque is “the art of the Counter-Reformation spread by Jesuit fathers”, will notice the large number of paintings that deal with everyday secular subjects. On the right