Dr. Dóra Sallay

Contact

Email: dora.sallay(at)mfab(dot)hu

Research interests

• Tuscan painting in the 13–15th centuries
• Central Italian mural painting in the 14–15th centuries
• problems of technique and structure in early Italian painting
• provenance research
• digital reconstructions
• digital art history

Professional membership

• Nuovi Studi, Comitato Consultivo Internazionale
• Pulszky Society – Hungarian Museum Association

Exhibitions

New permanent exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest: Italian art, 1250–1500 (2018, curator); Renaissance Hall – The Renaissance fresco collection (2019–2020, curator)

Select publications

Books

Corpus of Sienese Paintings in Hungary, 1420–1510, Florence: Centro Di, 2015.

Raffaele Bertinelli és reneszánsz képtára. Egy műgyűjtemény útja Rómától Esztergomig (Raffaele Bertinelli and his Renaissance picture gallery: The journey of an art collection from Rome to Esztergom). Esztergom: Keresztény Múzeum, 2009 (with English summary).

Articles

“Jacopo del Sellaio’s Stories of Vashti and Esther”, Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 124 (2019), 67–94.

“Pratichissimo della scuola senese” – Johann Anton Ramboux conoscitore, in I conoscitori tedeschi tra Otto e Novecento. (Atti del convegno in memoria di Luciano Bellosi e Miklós Boskovits / Conference papers in honor of Luciano Bellosi and Miklós Boskovits. Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut, 11–13 October 2013), Milan 2018, 39–51, 170–171.

“A Rediscovered Altarpiece by the Master of Signa”, Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 122 (2017), 105–140.

“Die Sammlung früher Malerei des Johann Anton Ramboux”, in: Italien so nah. Johann Anton Ramboux (1790–1866), ed. Ulf Sölter, exhibition catalogue (Neuss, Clemens Sels Museum, 13 March – 22 May 2016). Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 2016, 56–69.

“The Avignon Type of the Virgin of Humility: Examples in Siena”, in Geest en gratie. Essays Presented to Ildikó Ember on Her Seventieth Birthday, ed. Orsolya Radványi, with the assistance of Júlia Tátrai and Ágota Varga. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012, 104–111.

“Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Intellectuals and Early Italian Religious Art: Patterns of Collecting in Italy and Hungary”, in Sacred Possessions? Italy and Collecting Religious Art, 1500-1990, ed. Gail Feigenbaum and Sybille Ebert-Schifferer( Los Angeles, Calif.: Getty Publications, 2011, 104–118.

“La predella di Sano di Pietro per il polittico di San Giovanni Battista all’Abbadia Nuova: Ricostruzione e iconografia”, Prospettiva 126–127 (2007), 92–104 (with Wolfgang Loseries) https://www.jstor.org/stable/24434959

“Nuove considerazioni su due tavole d’altare di Matteo di Giovanni: La struttura della pala Placidi di San Domenico e della pala degli Innocenti di Sant’Agostino a Siena”, Prospettiva 112 (2003), 76–93 [2005] https://www.jstor.org/stable/24434280

Catalogue entries

“Giovanni dal Ponte: The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria”; “Michele Pannonio: The Muse Thalia”; “Domenico Ghirlandaio, Saint Stephen Protomartyr”, in Museum Guide: Old Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, ed. Orsolya Radványi and Noémi Böröczki, Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2021, 78, 84, 99.

“Alvaro Pirez, Risen Christ Blessing”; in Alvaro Pirez d’Évora. A Portuguese Painter in Italy on the Eve of the Renaissance, ed. Lorenzo Sbaraglio and Joaquim Oliveira Caetano, exhibition catalogue (Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 20 November 2019 – 25 March 2020), Lisbon: MNAA, 2020, 90–91, cat. 9.

“Maso di Banco, Le Couronnement de la Vierge”, “Sano di Pietro, Le Festin d’Hérode”, “Liberale da Verona, Vierge à l’Enfant avec un ange”, in Chefs-d’œuvre de Budapest: Dürer, Greco, Tiepolo, Manet, Rippl-Rónai, exhibition catalogue (Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 9 March – 10 July 2016), Paris: Édition de la Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais, 2016, 50–51, 56–57, 58.

[Giovanni del Biondo] “Szent Sebestyén és Szent Domonkos (Saint Sebastian and Saint Dominic)”, in Egri Érseki Palota (Eger Archiepiscopal Palace), ed. Zsolt Virág, Eger: Várkastély Kiadó, 2015, 92–97.

“Giovanni di Paolo”; “Giovanni di Paolo and Workshop: Virgin of Humility”; “Bernardino Fungai”; “Bernardino Fungai: Predella panels”, in The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti, ed. Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Bruggen Israëls, Milan: Officina Libraria, 2015, 273, 274–278, cat. 37, 330–331, 332–336, cat. 45.

“Bernardino Cristofano da Fongaia, called Bernardino Fungai, The Virgin and Child,” in Chef-d’Œuvres italiens XIVe-XVe siècles. Galerie G. Sarti, vol. 14, Paris: Galerie G. Sarti, 2015, 136–140, cat. 19.

“Pellegrino di Mariano, Madonna col Bambino, e i Santi Caterina da Siena, Bernardino da Siena, Girolamo, Dorotea e due angeli”, in Pandolfini Casa d’Aste. Capolavori da collezioni italiane, Florence, 28 ottobre 2014, 84–91, cat. 15.

“Giovanni di Paolo: Cristo e santi portacroce”, in “La fortuna dei primitivi”. Tesori d’arte dalle collezioni italiane fra sette e ottocento, ed. Angelo Tartuferi and Gianluca Tormen, exhibition catalogue (Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia, 24 June – 8 December 2014), Milan: Giunti, 2014, 222–224, cat. 23.

“Taddeo di Bartolo: Az alázatosság Madonnája, Keresztelő Szent János és Szent András apostol…” (Taddeo di Bartolo: The Madonna of Humility, Saint John the Baptist and the Apostle Saint Andrew…), in Németalföldtől Rómáig. Válogatás a Zichy-gyűjtemény legszebb festményeiből és szobraiból (From the Netherlands to Rome. Selections from the Most Beautiful Paintings and Sculptures of the Zichy Collection), exhibition catalogue (Székesfehérvár, Szent István Király Múzeum – Szépművészeti Múzeum – Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, 12 April – 29 June 2014), ed. Balázs Bányai, Annamária Gosztola, Elenonóra Kovács, Székesfehérvár: Szent István Király Múzeum, 2014, 132–135, cat. 51.

“Giovanni di Paolo: Cristo dolente e Cristo trionfante”, 202–203, cat. C.10, “Giovanni di Paolo: Polittico del 1426”, 206–209, cat. C.12, “Giovanni di Paolo: Predella del polittico Branchini?”, 210–213, cat. C.13, “Giovanni di Paolo: Predella di polittico, 1435 circa”, 214–217, cat. C.14, “Giovanni di Paolo: Predella del polittico dell’altare di San Domenico”, 220–221, cat. C.16, “Giovanni di Paolo: Trittico portatile,” 370–371, cat. E.5, “Giovanni di Paolo: San Girolamo”, 376–377, cat. E.8,“Giovanni di Paolo: Madonna col Bambino”, 378–379, cat. E.9, “Giovanni di Paolo: Scatola col Trionfo di Venere”, 416–417, cat. E.28, in Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello. Le arti a Siena nel primo rinascimento, exhibition catalogue (Siena, Santa Maria della Scala, Opera della Metropolitana, Pinacoteca nazionale, 26 March – 11 July, 2010) ed. Max Seidel et al., Milan: Motta, 2010.

“Neroccio di Bartolomeo de’ Landi: Tre scene della vita di san Benedetto”, 206–207, cat. 3.6; “Giovanni di Paolo: Santa Caterina davanti al Papa”, 239–240, cat. 8.7., in Il potere e la Grazia: I Santi Patroni d’Europa, ed. Alessio Geretti and Serenella Castri, with the collaboration of Carlo Corsato, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Palazzo Venezia, 8 October 2009 – 31 January 2010), Milan: Skira, 2009.

“Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio: The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Five Saints and Two Angels” (with Vilmos Tátrai), 130–131, cat. 6; “Neroccio di Bartolomeo de’ Landi: Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Bernardino of Siena”, 204–205, cat. 39, in Botticelli to Titian. Two Centuries of Italian Masterpieces, exhibition catalogue (Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum, 28 October 2009 – 14 February 2010), ed. Dóra Sallay, Vilmos Tátrai, Axel Vécsey. Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2009.

“Matteo di Giovanni: Altare Placidi”, “Matteo di Giovanni: Altare degli Innocenti ” catalogue entries in Matteo di Giovanni: Cronaca di una strage dipinta, exhibition catalogue (Siena, Complesso Museale di Santa Maria della Scala, Palazzo Squarcialupi, 23 June – 8 October 2006), ed. Cecilia Alessi and Alessandro Bagnoli, Asciano: ali edizioni, 2006, 44–47, 157–163.

“Matteo di Giovanni: Crocifissione di San Pietro”, catalogue entry in: Siena e Roma: Raffaello, Caravaggio e i protagonisti di un legame antico, exhibition catalogue (Siena, Complesso Museale di Santa Maria della Scala, Palazzo Squarcialupi, Siena, 25 November 2005 – 5 March 2006), Siena: Protagon Editori, 2005, 72–75, cat. 0.5.

 Lexicon entries

“Pietro di Giovanni d’Ambrogio”, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome 1960–[…], vol. 83, 2015, 492–495.
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-di-giovanni-di-ambrogio_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

“Pellegrino di Mariano di Jacopo”, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome 1960–[…], vol. 82, 2015, 152–155.
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pellegrino-di-mariano-di-jacopo_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

“Giovanni di Paolo”, in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 55, Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2007, 55–62.

“Fungai, Bernardino”, in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 46, Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2005, 329–331.

Online publications

Luke Syson, Dóra Sallay, Rachel Billinge and Caroline Campbell, “The reconstruction of Matteo di Giovanni’s Asciano altarpiece”, published August 2013; based on Luke Syson, ‘The Asciano Altarpiece, 1474’ in Luke Syson, Renaissance Siena. Art for a City, exhibition catalogue, London, The National Gallery, 2007, 124–131.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/about-research/the-meaning-of-making/reconstructing-the-renaissance-matteo-di-giovanni-s-lost-altarpiece-for-sant-agostino-asciano

“Fra Angelico: Scenes from the Lives of the Early Fathers”, Google Arts and Culture, 2012.  https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/VAHKpwvs_fhZ-A#details

Books edited

Caravaggio to Canaletto: The Glory of Italian Baroque and Rococo Painting, ed. Zsuzsanna Dobos, Dóra Sallay and Ágota Varga, exhibition catalogue (Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum 2013, 25 October 2013 –16 February 2014), Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2013.

Botticelli to Titian. Two Centuries of Italian Masterpieces, ed. Dóra Sallay, Vilmos Tátrai, Axel Vécsey, exhibition catalogue (Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum, 28 October 2009 – 14 February 2010), Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2009.

Online availability of publications

https://szepmuveszeti.academia.edu/dorasallay