It has been fifty years since the Hungarian National Gallery, the greatest and most prestigious collection of Hungarian art, became an independent museum. Designed to mark the return of that important date, this album introduces the Gallery by presenting some of the fines pieces in its various collections. The most beautiful and famous tableaux, paintings and sculptures included here offer a representative sample of the wealth of Hungarian art produced during eight hundred years.
The more than two hundred famous works of art reproduced in this volume attest to the long-standing contact between Hungarian art and major European trends and its exquisite quality of its achievments in international comparison.