Rome-Budapest, 1800-1948. Artistic relations between the two cities.

The Judith Virág Gallery presents a series of thematic exhibitions on the artistic relations and interactions between three culturally important European capitals and Budapest.

The development and diversity of modern Hungarian art were closely linked to the longer and shorter journeys of our painters and sculptors to Berlin, Paris, and Rome. The picturesque landscapes of Italy have always fascinated European artists and writers. For centuries, study trips to Italy, and above all to Rome, have been a complementary part of academic training in all the major art centers of Europe. Hundreds of painters, writers, and thinkers have spent longer or shorter periods of time studying monuments from antiquity, the Renaissance, and later the Baroque. As well as being an inexhaustible repository of fine art, Rome was also the most important religious center of the period. Thus, the eternal city was a prime destination for travel at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Between the two World Wars, many Hungarian artists, sculptors, and architects received state scholarships at the Hungarian Academy in Rome.