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History and Practice of Preserving Historic Monuments
Visual Arts Seminar
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Dear All,
The Department of Visual Arts is delighted to invite you to a two-day Seminar on 13th &14th March, 2026.
The Seminar will have workshops conducted by Professor Béla Zsolt SZAKÁCS, Art Historian, Department of Historical Studies at the Central European University, Vienna, and head of the Art History Department, the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest.
Workshop Title: History and Practice of Preserving Historic Monuments
Date: 14th March 2026
Session 1: Lecture and Discussion – 11:50 am to 1:20 pm
Session 2: Lecture and Discussion – 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Venue: Visual Art Studio (near sports block)
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Historic monuments bear witness not only to their date of origin but also to the reinterpretations of the centuries. Whether of deliberate political propaganda or ever-changing scientific concepts. This Seminar reviews the history of heritage conservation as a history of constant reinterpretation from anitquity to the present day.
About the Speaker: Béla Zsolt SZAKÁCS (PhD 1998, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2024) lectures in Art History at the Department of Historical Studies at the Central European University in Vienna, and head of the Art History Department at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. He is particularly interested in Romanesque architecture in Central Europe, Christian iconography and the history of monument protection. He is editor and co-author of an overview on photographic collections in East-Central Europe (Guide to Visual Resources of Medieval East Central Europe, Budapest 2002) and published a monograph on the iconography of the 14th-centrury Hungarian Angevin Legendary (Budapest 2006, in English as The Visual World of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary, Budapest 2016). He is involved in various ongoing projects that concern the medieval heritage of East Central Europe, resulting in monographies on Romanesque architecture in Western Hungary (Budapest 2021) and Early Gothic churches in Spiš and Šariš counties in Slovakia (Budapest 2023).
We welcome interested students, faculty and staff members to join the seminar.
Looking forward to your active participation in the workshop.
Warm regards,
Visual Arts Department