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For the handbook project, which was developed in collaboration between the BTK Institute of Art History and the Enigma journal, nearly one hundred art historians, including several academics and university professors, have written monographic biographical studies on the great figures of Hungarian art historiography, supplemented with selected bibliographies and short, encyclopedia-style career profiles. One of the greatest undertakings of the Institute of Art History is this well-known handbook of art historiography, series entitled "People, Not Tailcoats: Great Figures in Hungarian Art History Writing". The 13th volume was published in 2025, with the editorial collaboration of András Ferkai.

Bálint Ugry's book explores the early modern European study tours of young Hungarian aristocrats, known as Kavalierstour. The Kavalierstour was part of many young noblemen’s studies in early modern Europe or represented its final stage. Its unparalleled popularity shows that it was a suitable reflection of the changes that began in the sixteenth century and repositioned the place of the high nobility in society and the courts of the aristocracy, the Church, and the monarchs.

The time limits of the volume are marked by a fundamentally short historical period, the two decades of the half-century history of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, when the economic catch-up of Transylvania and the clarification of the presence of Hungarian culture were intertwined in many cases. The memories of industrial vocational education in Transylvania bear witness to the spread of modern technologies and educational methodology and the thin border between the artisan’s and the designer's activities.

This comprehensive volume explores the art and life of the Hungarian calligrapher George Bocskay (d. 1575). Borbála Gulyás’ richly illustrated work is the revised English edition of her 2020 volume, which was published based on her PhD thesis.

The latest publication of the Institute of Art History, edited by Barbara Dudás, was published under the title The Master of Colors – From the Correspondence of Painter and Illustrator László Bartha. The 320-page book, with 57 black-and-white and color photo appendices, can be purchased at the bookstore of the Research Centre for the Humanities (Penna Bölcsész Könyvesbolt) and in the national networks of Libri and Bookline.

The volume, published by the Institute of Art History contains edited versions of the presentations delivered at the international workshop on the history of reproductions, held on 27 August 2020 in the Lutheran Central Museum in Budapest, in connection with the exhibition titled “Present of Ferencz Pulszky”, organised between 26 March and 27 August 2020 in the museum by the Lutheran Central Collection and the Research Centre for the Humanities – Institute of Art History.