person

1940 –

Hungary

Born in Miskolc. He studied in the Faculties of Art History and Hungarian at the Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences (ELTE) between 1958 and 1963. Has taught art history since 1963, as Professor of the Art History Department between 1991 and 2010. Working in the Art History Research Group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Art History Research Institute) since 1974, and as Director of the Art History Research Institute (1991/2000). Selected Publications: ’Emlék márványból vagy homokkőből. Öt évszázad írásai a művészettörténet történetéből’ [Memory of Marble or Sandstone: Five Centuries of Writings from the History of Art History] (ed. and int. Corvina, Budapest, 1976), Die Anfänge der Gotik in Ungarn. Esztergom in der Kunst des 12.-13. Jahrhunderts (Academic Publishers, Budapest, 1984), ’Magyarországi művészet 1300-1470 körül’ [Hungarian Art circa 1300-1470] (ed., Academic Publishers, Budapest, 1987), ’A budavári szoborlelet’ [The Sculptural Findings of the Buda Castle] (with Zolnay László, Corvina, Budapest, 1989), ’Kép és hasonmás. Művészet és valóság a 14-15. századi Magyarországon’ [Image and Likeness. Art and Reality in XIV-XVth Century Hungary], (Art History Journals 23., Budapest, 1995). (2011)