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The year 2008 is the first occasion that much has been made of the anniversary of Matthias's accession to the throne, also as a matter of government policy. The Ministry of Culture and Education has set up a special bureau to coordinate a splendid series of programmes (concerts, exhibitions, conferences, etc.) introducing the music, art and culture of "the age of Matthias", in the broadest sense of the term.

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The spring months have seen the opening, in succession, of a series of exhibitions sharing the umbrella title The Renaissance—Four Times Over at four different venues:

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Star in the Raven's Shadow: János Vitéz and the Beginnings of Humanism in Hungary, the exhibition at the National Széchényi Library commemorating the 600th birthday of this Archbishop of Esztergom, was the opening event of the Budapest Spring Festival. The History Museum exhibition came next, with the title Matthias Corvinus, the King: Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Royal Court 1458–1490. These were followed by The Dowry of Beatrice and The Legacy of King Matthias: Late Renaissance Art in Hungary. The latter, at the Hungarian National Gallery, opened on the eve of the anniversary of Matthias's coronation in 1464, and can be considered the sequel to the Gallery's splendid 1982 exhibition in the castle of Schallaburg, in Lower Austria (Matthias Corvinus und die Renaissance in Ungarn) which showed King Matthias as a Renaissance man and his court as a centre of Renaissance art.

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Terézia Kerny
is a researcher for the Institute of Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in charge of the Archaeological Archives. Her main fields are Medieval and Baroque iconography, art historiography and the topography of art monuments.