Biography

Miriam Szőcs is Head of Department of Sculpture before 1800 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. 
She is specialized in Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, and has a primary interest in the oeuvre of the eighteenth-century Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. Her publications on these subjects appeared in the Bulletin of the Museum and Sculpture Journal. Parallel with her work at the Museum, she continued her previous studies on Early Baroque Transylvanian Retables, with the support of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, obtaining her Ph.D. in this theme at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 2011.

Project Summary

The project aims to conduct research on the most important Italian sculptures from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The results of the research will be published in the future scholarly catalogue of the new permanent exhibition of sculptures.