One of the flagship items - Titian's Christ carrying the Cross with Simon of Cyrene - was packed out in the presence of journalists on Monday. The picture Titian painted when he was 80 depicts the Italian master as Simon himself, museum director Laszlo Baan said at the event.
Some 30 paintings come from the museum's own collection, whereas the rest will be on loan from leading museums, such as the Louvre, the Prado, the National Gallery in London and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, he said.
This will be the largest-value exhibition the museum has ever hosted, with insurance costs totalling 200 billion forints (EUR 746m), said Baan.
The exhibition entitled From Botticelli to Titian - Masterpieces of Two Centuries of Italian Art will run until February 14.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
