Miklós Gálos

Contact

Email: miklos.galos(at)szepmuveszeti(dot)hu

Research interests

• German Renaissance painting
• German and Austrian Baroque painting
• Paintings on stone
• Art in the age of Mannerism
• Protestant iconography
• The history of Old Master collecting and the 19th-century art market

Professional Memberships

• Christian Museologists’ Association (Hungary)

Exhibitions

European Art 1600–1800 – The new permanent exhibition of the Old Masters Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2022 (curator)

Painted on Precious Stone: An Antonio Tempesta Rediscovered in the Collection of the Museum of Applied Arts Budapest, Budapest, György Ráth Villa, 17 Jan. 2020 – 12 Dec. 2021 (curator).

Tiffany & Gallé e i maestri dell’art nouveau nella collezione del Museo di Arti Applicate di Budapest, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Feb. 20–Apr. 28, 2013 (co-curator, with Éva Csenkey)

A Passion Panel Resurrected: The Restoration of Maarten Van Heemskerck’s The Lamentation, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 16–22 Sept. 2007 (curator).

Selected publications
Books edited

Tiffany & Gallé e i maestri dell’art nouveau nella collezione del Museo di Arti Applicate di Budapest, edited by Éva Csenkey and Miklós Gálos, exhibition catalogue (Rome, Musei Capitolini, Feb. 20–Apr. 28, 2013). Budapest: Museum of Applied Arts Budapest, 2013.

Articles

“An Antonio Tempesta Rediscovered in the Collection of Museum of Applied Arts Budapest,” Ars Decorativa 32 (2018): 7–36.
https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ArsDecorativa_32_2018/?pg=8&layout=s

“Wittenbergtől Máriapócsig: Luther első magyarországi képmása” [From Wittenberg to Máriapócs: The first portrait of Luther in Hungary] Credo vol 23, no. 3–4 (2017): 64–76.
https://epa.oszk.hu/02300/02357/00055/pdf/EPA02357_credo_2017_3-4_064-076.pdf

“Eine Taufgarnitur von Hans Jakob II. Baur in Ungarn: Neuzuschreibung und Provenienz eines Augsburger Ensembles,” Ars Decorativa 30 (2016): 7–28.
https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/ArsDecorativa_30_2016/?pg=8&layout=s

“Egy eltévedt angyal: A fasori evangélikus templom oltára” [A lost angel: The altar of the Fasor Lutheran Church in Budapest] Credo 21, no. 1 (2015): 43–60.
https://epa.oszk.hu/02300/02357/00047/pdf/EPA02357_credo_2015_1_043-060.pdf

“Rom über den Alpen: Römische Referenzen des nördlichen Manierismus,” in Des Kaisers Kulturhauptstadt: Linz um 1600 (Kataloge der Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseen ; N.S. 130), edited by Peter Assmann and Christina Schmid, 35–82. Linz: Weitra, 2012.

“Con figure nude: Die Verbreitung der manieristischen Formensprache in Europa,” in Sturz in die Welt: Die Kunst des Manierismus in Europa, exhibition catalogue, edited by Ortrud Westheider and Michael Philipp, 36–41 (Hamburg, 15 Nov. 2008–11 Jan. 2009), Hamburg, 2008.

“The Restoration of Maarten van Heemskerck’s Budapest Lamentation Panel” (with András Fáy), Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 105 (2006): 73–92.
https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/ORSZ_SZEP_Kozl_105/?pg=74&layout=s

Catalogue entries

Cat. no. 45 in Les Esterházy, princes collectionneurs: La naissance du musée, edited by Orsolya Radványi, exhibition catalogue (Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, 26 Jan.–29 May 2011), Paris, 2011.

Cat. no. 75, 115, and 127 in Cranach et son temps, edited by Guido Messling, exhibition catalogue (Brussels, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, 20 Oct. 2010–23 Jan. 2011; Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 7 Feb. 2011–23 May 2011), Brussels–Paris, 2011.

Cat. no. 2 and 17, in Ot Rafaelja do Goji: Segyevri iz Muzeja izobrazityelnih iszkusztv, Budapest, edited by Ildikó Ember, exhibition catalogue (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 8 June–29 Aug 2010), Moscow, 2010.

Cat. no. 25, 26, 27, 28, 59, and 95, in Nicolas II Esterházy 1765–1833: Un prince hongrois collectioneur, edited by E. Starcky, exhibition catalogue (Compiègne, Musée national du château de Compiègne, 21 September 2007–7 January 2008), Compiègne, 2008.

Cat. no. 65, in In Arte Venustas: Studies on Drawings in Honour of Teréz Gerszi, edited by Andrea Czére (Budapest, 2007).

Online publications

Cat. no. 33, 68, 81, and 82 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, Museum of Hungarian Agriculture, 2021–2022), Budapest, 2021.
https://issuu.com/szepmuveszeti/docs/vad_szat_angol

Book reviews

“Krisch, András – Tóthné Szlavkovszky Mariann, A soproni evangélikus gyülekezet évszázadai,” Soproni Szemle 72/2 (2018), 204–206.