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Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Botticelli to Titian

7:02pm

If you can find the time for a day or so in Budapest before February 14, make the reservation now. For the city’s Fine Arts Museum - the Szepmuveszeti Muzeum - has organised and staged a huge and unmissable international loan show of Italian Renaissance art, 'Botticelli to Titian: Two Centuries of Italian Masterpieces'. Loans have come from the great museums of the world to supplement the by no means unimpressive home team, but it is those that have been drawn from little-known or little-visited institutions in eastern Europe that prove the irresistible lure to foreign visitors.

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