2025. May 13. Tuesday
Agora - Együd Árpád Cultural Center - Kaposvár
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Address: 7400, Kaposvár Csokonai u. 1.
Phone number: (82) 314-915
E-mail: vaszary@dravanet.hu
Opening hours: Tue-Sat 10-18
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The exhibition has closed for visitors.
2012.08.16. - 2012.10.27.
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Museum tickets, service costs:
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Ticket for adults
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1000 HUF
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Ticket for students
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500 HUF
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Ticket for pensioners
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500 HUF
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Ticket for families
(2 adults + 2 children)
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2000 HUF
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/ family
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The Vaszary Art Gallery is preparing an exhibition to be shown at the International Chamber Music Festival in Kaposvár that is related to the history of the town and has a special significance in terms of art. Kaposvár celebrates the 300th anniversary of its foundation in 2012. We also commemorate the count Pál Esterházy (1635-1713) on the occasion, who gave permission for families to move in territories he owned in Kaposvár. The patent concerning the issue is now the memorandum for Kaposvár.
Esterházy Pál, the author of the cantata collection Harmonia Caelestis was a famous patron and collector of art. The family began collecting work of art at the beginning of the 17th century. The most acknowledged collector in the family was the prince Miklós II, who purchased over one-thousand work of art. His interest involved all genres of art, except for Rococo, that was way away from his taste in classicism. The Esterházy Art Gallery used to be one of the centres for cultural life around Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century. Even though art dealers from abroad offered over two-million forints for the collection, the family accepted the offer of the Hungarian government and sold the gallery of 637 items for 1.100.000 forints, and the graphics collection made up of 3535 drawings, 51.301 engravings ands 305 book volumes for 200.000 forints.
The most valuable segment of the collection was the compilation that consisted of the greatest pieces from Italy and the Low Countries. The most widely known picture in the collection was the Esterházy Madonna by Raffaello, in addition to great masterpieces by Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellotto, Murillo, Claude Lorrain, Frans Hals Salomon and Ruysdael
The exhibition at the Vaszary Art Gallery borrowed pictures from the Museum of Fine Art that, due to the state of the works, could not have been shown until now. Italian Renaissance, French, Flemish, Dutch Baroque, as well as German Rococo paintings partly represent religion, partly mythology in their topic, in addition to landscapes and portraits.
A new feature of the exhibition in Kaposvár is that the restoration of the paintings has been finished recently so the public will see the works in their original beauty.
Esterházy Pál, the author of the cantata collection Harmonia Caelestis was a famous patron and collector of art. The family began collecting work of art at the beginning of the 17th century. The most acknowledged collector in the family was the prince Miklós II, who purchased over one-thousand work of art. His interest involved all genres of art, except for Rococo, that was way away from his taste in classicism. The Esterházy Art Gallery used to be one of the centres for cultural life around Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century. Even though art dealers from abroad offered over two-million forints for the collection, the family accepted the offer of the Hungarian government and sold the gallery of 637 items for 1.100.000 forints, and the graphics collection made up of 3535 drawings, 51.301 engravings ands 305 book volumes for 200.000 forints.
The most valuable segment of the collection was the compilation that consisted of the greatest pieces from Italy and the Low Countries. The most widely known picture in the collection was the Esterházy Madonna by Raffaello, in addition to great masterpieces by Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellotto, Murillo, Claude Lorrain, Frans Hals Salomon and Ruysdael
The exhibition at the Vaszary Art Gallery borrowed pictures from the Museum of Fine Art that, due to the state of the works, could not have been shown until now. Italian Renaissance, French, Flemish, Dutch Baroque, as well as German Rococo paintings partly represent religion, partly mythology in their topic, in addition to landscapes and portraits.
A new feature of the exhibition in Kaposvár is that the restoration of the paintings has been finished recently so the public will see the works in their original beauty.
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