Csaba Hertelendy

Contact

Email: csaba.hertelendy(at)mfab(dot)hu

 Research interests

• French painting in the 15th–18th centuries
• French portraiture in the 16th and 17th centuries
• mythological themes in the “Grand Siècle” of French painting
• Mannerist painting in Italy and North of the Alps
• in-house editing for exhibition materials and museum publications

Exhibitions

New permanent exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest: European art, 1600–1700 (2022, curator)

Select publications

Books and periodicals edited

Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, copy-editor

Tátrai, Júlia and Ágota Varga, eds. Rubens Van Dyck and the Splendour of Flemish Painting  Exhibition catalogue (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest,  Oct. 30, 2019–Feb. 16, 2020), ). Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2019 (copy-editor)

Hertelendy, Csaba, Adriána Lantos, and Orsolya Radványi, eds. El Greco. Exhibition catalogue (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Oct. 28, 2022 – Feb. 19, 2023). Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2022.

Júlia Tátrai and Vilmos Tátrai: Divine Seduction. Erotica and Passion in Five Centuries of Mythological Depictions, edited in collaboration with Nikoletta Koruhely and Csaba Hertelendy. Exhibition catalogue (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Febr. 18, 2022 – April 18, 2022), Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2022.

Catalogue entries

“Attributed to Matthias Withoos: Bouquet in a Landscape”; “Abraham van Beijeren: Still Life with Fruit, Seafood, and Precious Tableware”, in Museum Guide: Old Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021, 231, 232.

Cat. no. 39, 40, and 46, in Treasures from Budapest: European and Hungarian Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Tokyo, The National Art Center, Dec. 4,  2019 – March 16, 2020.

Cat. no. 76 and 78, in The Habsburg Dynasty: 600 Years of Imperial Collections. Exhibition catalogue. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 19 Oct. 19, 2019 – Jan. 26, 2020.

Cat. no. 28, 30, 74, 77, 80, 86, 87, 95, and 97, in Art and Hunting – Selected Artworks from the Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery, edited by Orsolya Radványi. Exhibition catalogue. Budapest: Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, 25 August  2021–3 April 2022.