Museum of Fine Arts - Budapest Hungary || travel to Europe || trip to Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts. The Museum of Fine Arts, Setmovseti Museum, was built between 1900 and 1906 in eclectic neoclassical style according to plans by Albert Schickadans and Fulop Herzog, on one side of Heroes Square. After a major renovation, it reopened in late 2019 to host a series of blockbuster exhibitions, such as the ones on the Flemish masters and da Vinci. The permanent collection includes big international names up to 1,600 and key Hungarian artists until 1800. The museum is now divided into five major sections, including Egyptian art and classical antiquities. Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary is housed in a grand renaissance style building and once again opened after three years renovations in late 2018. The Museum of Fine Arts is home to the city's most outstanding collection of foreign works of art, ranging from articles from ancient Egypt to stellar collections of Spanish, Flemish, Italian and German art. It also now includes Hungarian art for the first time in four decades. The private collection of Count Miklos Esterházy, purchased by the state in 1870, forms the nucleus of the collection. The old master's collection on the first floor is the most complete, with 3,000 works from the Dutch and Flemish, Spanish, Italian, German, French and British schools dating from between the 13th and 17th centuries, including seven paintings by El Greco. Among the most famous of all the works on display is the Esterházy Madonna, painted by Raphael, the supreme high renaissance painter, around 1508. It's unfinished but still manages to achieve the beauty and harmony for which the paragon of classicism is acclaimed. It was among the 700 artworks that formed the original Esterházy collection. On the second floor the European Sculpture Collection holds some wonderful pieces, including the fascinating work of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. On the floor above Hungarian art makes an appearance, with a rich collection of Baroque paintings dating from 1600 to 1800 that was recently moved from the Hungarian National Gallery to a new purpose-built exhibition area. Especially fine, and a real hit with children because of a program that allows them to handle original pieces and works of art from the period, is the collection of Egyptian artifacts, including decorated sarcophagi and mummy portraits in the basement. Also here is the classical section containing Greek, Etruscan and Roman works. The collection of Greek vases and urns ranks among the finest and most complete in Europe. An attraction of the museum is its old gallery, Regi Kepter. The gallery's history goes back to 1870 when the collection of the family of Esterházy was acquired. The gallery includes paintings from almost all the old masters, including works from Bruegel, Rubens, Jordaens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velázquez, Raphael and Titian, just to name a few. French artists are well represented in the collection of 19th and 20th century art, with works from many of the greats, including Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, Pissarro and Gauguin. But the Museum of Fine Arts has more than just paintings, there is also a collection of sculptures that are spread around the museum as well as art from the antiquity, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, Egyptian treasures excavated by Hungarian archaeologists and an overview of artwork from the Middle Ages including Gothic altarpieces. The museum also owns more than 100,000 drawings and prints, including drawings from famous artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt. you