The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts is justly famous for its collection of Spanish paintings, the finest of which—painted between the middle of the seventeenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century—are illustrated in two volumes by Marianna Haraszti-Takacs....

Landscape represents the subject of prime importance of Dutch painting. In every period Dutch masters were happy to present to the viewer the peculiar beauty of their country edged by a number of bays, by a dense network of canals, and profusely-sprinkled by rains....