Starting today, the large-scale exhibition The Mysterious World of Hieronymus Bosch can be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts. President János Áder and his wife also took part in Friday's ceremonial opening .
Bosch's art has withstood all tests, its recognition has survived all eras, millions of people flock to the world's most prestigious museums every year in front of the small number of surviving works - said the President of the Republic on Friday at the ceremonial opening of the exhibition entitled The Mysterious World of Hieronymus Bosch, between Heaven and Hell of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Speaking about the art of the German master, János Áder said that the 21st century viewer has an elemental effect on this proliferation of images even from the perspective of more than 500 years. "His timelessness means that we can still puzzle over the picture puzzles given to his contemporaries today," he said.
“Bosch is a genius. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh. It's a fantastic experience that we were able to see the works of all of them here, at the large-scale, impressive exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts in recent years," the head of state reminded.
As he emphasized, perhaps the largest Hieronymus Bosch exhibition of the last half century is now opening in Budapest. Among others, original masterpieces came from Paris, Boston, Madrid, Berlin, Frankfurt and Rotterdam, these are supplemented by contemporaries who joined, works from the master's workshop, illustrations that help understanding, graphics and quality copies.
A total of 90 works of art came to the exhibition from nearly half a hundred public and private collections from around the world. Of course, the most important are the Bosch works by hand - said László Baán, the director general of the Museum of Fine Arts, about the exhibition on InfoRádio.
"This also makes the exhibition sensational, since in the past half century there have been perhaps three such exhibitions that were able to build a large exhibition on self-made Bosch on such a scale.
"The Ship of Fools image came from the Louvre, Adoration of the Kings from the Metropolitan, and St. John the Evangelist on the island of Patmos from the Berlin Museum of Fine Arts," listed the expert.
Even in the world's major museums, there is only one Bosch picture each, lucky is the museum that has several Bosch pictures - for example, the Academy Gallery in Venice, now very important and exciting Bosch paintings have arrived from there as well.
To understand the universe of Hieronymus Bosch, it is important to see the art of his time, and this age is also flashed with the help of several works of art. The work in Bosch's workshop, his followers and Bosch imitators are also shown, as well as the influence of his art.
Source: infostart.hu
Featured image: MTI/Noémi Bruzák
