El Greco exhibition in Budapest attracts over one hundred thousand visitors

Since its opening at the end of October, more than a hundred thousand visitors have already attended the El Greco exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Due to the great interest, on Saturdays and Sundays, the museum opens its doors to visitors one hour earlier, at 9 am.

This is the first time, that the Hungarian public can see an exhibition comprehensively presenting El Greco's oeuvre in Budapest. The aim of the exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts is to provide a broad overview of the oeuvre of one of the most prominent masters in the history of European art, El Greco, i.e. Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), presenting the painter's complete formal complexity and wide-ranging style development - the museum informed the Hungarian News Agency (MTI) on Wednesday.

As the announcement reminds us, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest has one of the continent's most significant collections of Spanish paintings, including six original El Greco paintings, the biggest collection in Europe outside of Spain.

In addition to the works on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, the exhibition includes borrowed works from more than forty private and public collections, such as the Prado Museum and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid, the El Greco Museum in Toledo, the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

The exhibition guides the viewer through the geographical locations and art centers where the Spanish-Cretan master visited: through the Italian cities that had a decisive influence on the development of his painting skills, through Venice, Rome, to Toledo, where he spent more than half of his life and where his art developed in its entirety.

The large-scale exhibition featuring more than fifty works by El Greco can be visited until February 19.

Source: MTI - Hungarian News Agency

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