{"id":140978,"date":"2025-07-22T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/07\/budapest-mostra-di-giacomo-marastoni\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:49:31","slug":"budapest-mostra-di-giacomo-marastoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2025\/07\/budapest-mostra-di-giacomo-marastoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Budapest, exhibition dedicated to Giacomo Marastoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following six years of preparatory work, the first major retrospective exhibition dedicated to <strong>Giacomo Marastoni<\/strong> was inaugurated on 18 June at the<strong> Budapest History Museum<\/strong>: \u201cAn Italian in Pest \u2013 Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860) and the first Hungarian Academy of painting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Giacomo Marastoni \u2013 or Jakab Marastoni, as he was known in Hungarian \u2013 was born in Venice in 1804 and studied at the renowned Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. After travelling to Austria, he moved to Pozsony (present-day Bratislava, Slovakia) in 1833, and later settled in Pest in 1836, where he remained until his death in 1860. Marastoni became actively involved in Hungary\u2019s reform era, working as a portraitist during the Diets of Pozsony and Kolozsv\u00e1r (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania), and received commissions over several decades from both noble and bourgeois families. In 1846, he founded his innovative institution: the <strong>First Hungarian Academy of Painting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition features <strong>240 works of art<\/strong> from 28 public and ecclesiastical collections across four countries, including several pieces on display for the first time, alongside contributions from private collectors. The selection traces the life and artistic development of Giacomo Marastoni, from his early years in Venice and Vienna to his time in Pozsony and Pest. Alongside Mikl\u00f3s Barab\u00e1s, Marastoni was considered <strong>one of the leading portraitists of Hungary<\/strong> during the late Reform Era and was also among the first to experiment with the daguerreotype technique.\u00a0 His private institute represented the most significant forerunner of the state-run art education system formally established in 1871.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition marks the first comprehensive attempt to retrace the oeuvre of Jakab Marastoni. In addition to the holdings of the Budapest History Museum\u2019s Fine Arts Collection and the Metropolitan Art Gallery, the exhibition showcases loans from major national institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts \u2013 Hungarian National Gallery and the Hungarian National Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The opening was also attended by <strong>Dr Elisabetta Barisoni<\/strong> (Director of the Museums Area \u2013 Head of MUVE Mestre, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia) and <strong>Professor Riccardo Caldura<\/strong> (Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following six years of preparatory work, the first major retrospective exhibition dedicated to Giacomo Marastoni was inaugurated on 18 June at the Budapest History Museum: \u201cAn Italian in Pest \u2013 Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860) and the first Hungarian Academy of painting\u201d. 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