{"id":24624,"date":"2025-08-08T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fovarosikeptar.hu\/?page_id=24624"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:54:00","slug":"an-italian-in-pest-giacomo-marastoni-1804-1860-and-the-first-hungarian-painting-academy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fovarosikeptar.hu\/en\/an-italian-in-pest-giacomo-marastoni-1804-1860-and-the-first-hungarian-painting-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Italian in Pest – Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860) and the First Hungarian Painting Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Italian in Pest<\/h2>\n

Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860) and the First Hungarian Painting Academy<\/h2>\n

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19 June 2025 \u2013 26 October 2025<\/p>\n

Curated by Dr. P\u00e9ter Farbaky and Eszter Moln\u00e1rn\u00e9 Acz\u00e9l<\/p>\n

Location: BHM Castle Museum, 1014 Budapest, Szent Gy\u00f6rgy t\u00e9r 2., Buda Castle Palace, Building E<\/p>\n

Opening hours: Tuesday\u2013Sunday 10 am\u20136 pm<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″ down=”25″][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″ down=”25″]ONLINE TICKET<\/a>[vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″ down=”25″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″ down=”20″][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″ down=”20″][vc_column_text]Giacomo Marastoni, or Jakab Marastoni as he was known in Hungarian (1804\u20121860), was born in Venice, where he studied at the famous Academy of Fine Arts. After travelling in Austria in the early 1830s, he moved to Pozsony\/Pressburg\/Bratislava in 1833 and eventually settled down in Pest in 1836, where he lived until his death.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″ down=”20″][vc_column_text]Marastoni joined the reformist revival of Hungary. He worked as a portrait painter during the parliamentary assemblies of Pozsony\/Bratislava and Kolozsv\u00e1r\/Cluj, and he received commissions from noble and middle-class families for decades. In 1846, he spent his entire fortune on setting up his pioneering institution, the First Hungarian Academy of Painting in Pest, in Nagyh\u00edd Street, on the third floor of a building designed by J\u00f3zsef Hild. He acquired the necessary reproductions, plaster sculptures and engravings from Italy. In Pest, the opening of the Academy was a major cultural event that was met with great interest, and in the same year Marastoni was elected an honorary citizen of Pest. The private art school, which also received patronage, operated until Marastoni\u2019s death in 1860. Among the students were many important artists of the second half of the 19th century, such as Mih\u00e1ly Szeml\u00e9r and K\u00e1roly Lotz.<\/p>\n

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Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860)<\/p>\n

Portrait of Herman Klein \/ J\u00e1nos Kil\u00e9nyi,<\/em> 1847<\/p>\n

BHM Kiscell Museum \u2013 Municipal Gallery<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″ down=”20″][vc_column_text]The exhibition presents Marastoni\u2019s family and his studies, tracing his life from Venice \u2013 through Vienna and Bratislava \u2013 to Pest. Being an artist and an artist organiser, Marastoni quickly became a major figure in the public life of Pest. His network of contacts, his Academy in Pest, as well as the early work of the group of Hungarian artists who started their career at his school and later acquired a name for themselves, all played a decisive role in the development of Pozsony (Bratislava) and Pest during the Hungarian Reform Era. The operation of his art school was based on traditional academic values, with the intention of creating domestic higher education in fine arts. During this time \u2013 like today \u2013 it was not unusual for artists to try their luck in several different parts of Europe. Marastoni\u2019s multi-national identity was only natural in an era embedded in the Central-Europeanism of the Habsburg Empire. Towards the end of the Reform Era, Mikl\u00f3s Barab\u00e1s and Marastoni were considered the country\u2019s most important portrait painters, and Marastoni also carried out early experiments in daguerreotype. His private institution was the most important forerunner of the art education established by the state in 1871.<\/p>\n

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Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860)<\/p>\n

Greek Woman \u2013 copy,<\/em> 1850<\/p>\n

Private collection<\/p>\n

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Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860)<\/p>\n

Franz Mayr, first captain of the Zr\u00ednyi steamship,<\/em> 1837<\/p>\n

BHM Kiscell Museum \u2013 Municipal Gallery<\/p>\n

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Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860)<\/p>\n

Venetian Women Carrying Water<\/em>, 1845<\/p>\n

Museum of Fine Arts \u2012 Hungarian National Gallery<\/p>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The exhibition, which opens as a result of six years of preparatory work, will display 240 works of art from 28 public and church collections in four countries, as well as on loan from private collectors.<\/p>\n

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Giacomo Marastoni (1804\u20131860)<\/p>\n

The family of the Bratislava merchant F\u00fcl\u00f6p Scherz,<\/em> 1835<\/p>\n

Bratislava, Gal\u00e9ria mesta Bratislavy<\/p>\n

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