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Xploring Budapest: National Gallery - Local & International Masterpieces

• 5 Jan 2023 1:23 PM

The Hungarian National Gallery in the Buda Castle is the largest public collection of Hungarian fine art, with a great history and lots to discover, as short video below shows.

Its thematic and historical exhibitions introduce visitors to the different periods of Hungarian art history, and also to the country’s amazing past.

After the National Gallery merged with the Museum of Fine Arts, a completely new exhibition concept was drawn up and applied to present the works of Hungarian artists alongside international masters, with the aim of displaying Hungarian art together with international works of fine art and industrial art of the same period. This gives visitors a chance to interpret each period as a whole.

For example, this is well worth checking out:
'Vaszary Rediscovered' Exhibition at Hungarian National Gallery

Also you can wander around in a medieval and Renaissance lapidary, or view Gothic panel paintings, wooden sculptures and winged altarpieces, and some major works of late Renaissance and Baroque art. 

Pieces by internationally renowned artists of the 19th century, such as Bertalan Székely, Mihály Munkácsy and Pál Szinyei Merse are on display. 

This is also worth a good look:
Hungarian Art Between 1896 and World War II

The contemporary collection of the Hungarian National Gallery includes works of art related in some way or another to Hungary from World War II to today - providing an overview of the trends and important artists of the past decades, along with some fine-art features of Hungarian artistic life.

Click here to virtually visit Hungarian National Gallery

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