How do we perceive the world around us and how do we record it these days? Primarily in photographs but also on film, in HD or 4K… This was not always the case. Let’s travel five hundred or a thousand years back in time.

How did artists see the world that surrounded them? And how did they depict it on a flat surface? What was more important for them? The exact representation of reality or the depiction of its essence? Conveying the hierarchy of divine order or recording the features of a face precisely?

Examining these questions will take us closer to understanding why there are such significant differences between the depiction of the same element of reality (e.g., a landscape by a lake) in Egyptian, medieval, Renaissance, baroque and rococo art?

Place: Fine Arts Museum

Address: 1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 41.

Phone: +36 1 469 7100