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VAN EyCK - CONTENT UPDATE VAN EyCK, the Visual Arts Network for the Exchange of Cultural Knowledge (www.vaneyck.org ) is a highly accessible, continuously expanding online art object database, bringing together the collections of diverse contributing institutes. VAN EyCK is operated by the VAN EyCK foundation, a not-for-profit organization which seeks to enable access to information in the domain of the visual arts. . The VAN EyCK Foundation is pleased to announce the expansion of the scope of VAN EyCK to include Hungarian art. The works which will be featured will give a fair impression of Hungarian art as it developed over the centuries, from the Romanesque period to the mid 20th century, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th century. Because of the magnitude of the undertaking, the expansion will proceed in phases, the first of which will encompass art from the period 1918-1939. The works of art which will be featured will largely - though not exclusively - be paintings. The objects which will be featured are from the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery (MNG) in Budapest. This museum records the development of Hungarian art, and prides itself on such collections as the Medieval and Renaissance stone exhibition (11th-16th century), Gothic wood sculptures and pictures (14th-15th century), late Gothic altars (15th-16th century), Renaissance and Baroque art (1550-1800), paintings, sculptures and medals from the 19th and 20th century. The catalog records (the textual information) will be validated by the Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest). The VAN EyCK foundation is pleased to offer a free trial account. This will give you unlimited access for the duration of one month. Please send an e-mail to mailto:[log in to unmask] For more information about VAN EyCK, please visit www.vaneyck.org or contact mailto:[log in to unmask]