How to understand art at the Budapest Fine Arts Museum

The Museum of Fine Arts-Budapest was built in 1906 during the Golden Age of the Austria-Hungarian monarchy, in a turn-of-the-century style with evidence of Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque eras. The Museum of Fine Arts has a world-famous Spanish collection with important artists like Velazquez, El Greco, and Goya. The Italian gallery includes such greats as Raphael, Giorgione and Correggio. The modern French collection includes artists such as Courbet, Manet, Monet and Toulouse-Lautrec. The museum also has a big collection of Dutch art as well as modern art, Egyptian art and graphic art.

One of the best ways to learn about art is to study the classics. And what better place to study the classics than at one of the best museums in Europe. In this free art appreciation series, an art expert will take you around the galleries of the Budapest Museum of Art and point out the qualities which make classic paintings timeless works of art. Learn about lighting, brush stokes, framing, subject matter and other aspect of these famous paintings.