The most comprehensive exhibition to date dedicated to the Italian Renaissance is currently running in Budapest, in the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum) – the spectacular, large scale exhibition entitled Boticelli to Titian: Masterpieces of Two Centuries of Italian Art and it displays paintings from over fifty museums from around the world.
The exhibit of 15th and 16th century Italian painting offers visitors the opportunity to find out more about the development of intellectual and artistic processes in the most important cultural centres and get aquainted with the greatest artists of the period (among whom were Giorgione, Raphael, Veronese and Tintoretto).
Among the presented paintings visitors will be able to see sensational masterpieces like Titian's Man with a Glove, Veneto's Flora, Botticelli's Story of Virginia, Cossa's Portrait of a Man, Perugino's Portrait of Francesco delle Opere, Savoldo's Tobias and the Angel and Vecchio's La Bella. The Hungarian public will also have the unique chance to see one of the most valuable paintings in the world, the emblematic Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci – the painting is very special because it's permanently exhibited in the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow and so far in Europe it has only been loaned to Italian museums.
In addition to the artists and works listed above, the show includes 35 paintings from the prestigious Italian collection of the local museum as well as 130 paintings, representing the art of over eighty masters on loan from famous museums including the Uffizi in Florence, the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the Prado in Madrid, the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the national galleries of London and Washington DC.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at the box office of the Museum of Fine Arts – the exhibition can be attended for three and a half months, until the 14th of February 2010.
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