Welcome to my homepage. I am an art historian from Budapest, Hungary, currently working at the Museum of Applied Arts. Recently I have been one of the curators of a major exhibition dedicated to King and Emperor Sigismund.

I received my PhD from Yale University, where I studied at the History of Art Department, focusing on medieval art. My dissertation is titled Art and Patronage in Medieval Hungary - The Frescoes of the Augustinian Church at Siklós (advisor: Walter Cahn). My earlier diplomas are from the Central European University (MA in Medieval Studies) and from Eötvös Loránd University (MA in Art History).

You can find me on LinkedIn: http://hu.linkedin.com/in/zsomborjekely
and Academia.edu: http://imm.academia.edu/ZsomborJekely

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ZJekely
 

Here is a list of projects I am (was) involved in:
Exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest:	THE DOWRY OF BEATRICE Italian Majolica Art and the Court of King Matthias Corvinus March-June 2008 I was the project leader of this exhibition project, held in the "Renaissance Year"   The catalogue can be ordered here.
Exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Art, Budapest:	SIGISMUNDUS - REX ET IMPERATOR -  opened in March, 2006, Budapest and later travelled to Luxemburg I was one of the curators of the exhibition. The exhibition catalogue was published by Philipp von Zabern.
	Verrocchio's Christ - Museum of Fine Arts, March 13 - June 22, 2003 Opening speech by Paul Crossley Read reviews of the exhibition (all in Hungarian): Élet és Irodalom Mozgó Világ Múzeumi Hírlevél Kontextus.hu Új Művészet (Tünde Wehli) História (Sigismund issue) And in English: Renaissance Studies (Tim Juckes) Studia Patzinakia (Ana Maria Gruia) Ars (S. Orisko) Peregrinations Hungarian Quarterly (Ernő Marosi) Chronico.de (In German)
Other Exhibitions:	Paradisum plantavit - Benedictine Monasteries in Medieval Hungary - An exhibition at the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary March 21-Nov. 11., 2001. Read my study for the catalogue on medieval frescoes in Benedictine churches (Ják and Garamszentbenedek)
The following of my studies are currently available:	My book on medieval frescoes in Transylvania, written together with restorer Loránd Kiss and edited by Tibor Kollár, was published by the László Teleki Foundation in 2008.
	Verrocchio Krisztusa - Verrocchio's Christ. Exhibition catalogue (2003), available from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest or from www.artbooks.com
	Art and Patronage in Medieval Hungary - The Frescoes of the Augustinian Church at Siklós - PhD Dissertation. Available for purchase in printed or PDF format from UMI dissertation services. UMI number: 3109412
	Review of Iva Rosario's Art and Propaganda - The Medieval Review, 2003 (direct link to article)
	Jáki és garamszentbenedeki falképek - Illustrated study from the 2001 exhibition catalogue Paradisum plantavit. For now, only the Hungarian version is available online (in html and PDF format), but the English version is coming soon.
	A series of entries for the Magyar Művelődéstörténeti Lexikon, a printed and online encyclopedia of Hungarian Cultural History, published by Balassi Kiadó - see www.mamul.hu
Visit my web project on the Art of Medieval Hungary and my related blog with more frequent updates!