Category: The Arts

Once in a fictivetime, in a fabulousland,a rider forced hisway across thesteppes, hurried to war, butin the nearingdistance, through thesteppe’s dust- haze,the dark wood – warnings nettles –scrape at his heart:tighten your saddle –fear the forest’sstream – but the knightdisobeyed. He rode inhaste,winged into a rushonto the woodedrise. And leaving

Zoltán Kodály published two works under the title Háry János. The first, a Singspiel, received its première on 16 October 1926 at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest, with Nándor Rékai conducting; the second, a six-movement orchestral suite drawn from the Singspiel, was first performed on 24 March 1927

The aim of this study is to give a brief overview of the creation and history of the plaster cast collection of medieval and Renaissance sculptures of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. It will present how the collection was conceived and assembled, compared to similar collections of plaster reproductions

On the Occasion of his Receiving the Jenő Szervátiusz Award, Budapest, 12 November 2015 The Jenő Szervátiusz Award was originally created to honour artists (painters, sculptors and graphic artists), but since 2005, it has also been awarded each year alternately to art historians and journalists, in order to direct the

Katalin Petényi and Barna Kabay have put together a series of nine films presenting some of the fundamental strands that link the cultures of Italy and Hungary. The tenth movie surveys the life and work of mystical painter Imre Ámos, while an eleventh in the series, directed by Bence Gyöngyössy,

For more than a century the complexity of Ödön Lechner’s experiment with a “Hungarian style” has generated fierce theoretical debates, often strongly influenced by contemporary politics. It is the sort of topic that inspires each new generation of scholars to explore anew the construction of nationalism in the fine arts.