Ben Elwes Fine Art, Master Paintings Week, London, 4-11 July 2014, is showing a portrait of Admiral Abdelkader Perez, Moroccan ambassador to England in 1723 and 1737, whose Spanish family name suggests he was descended from morisco refugees from Spain. The portrait was painted by Michael Dahl (1659-1743), the London-based Swedish artist.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Fifty Years after Panofsky’s ‘Tomb Sculpture’, conference, London
21 June 2014 Conference on Fifty Years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Will include two 25-minute papers on Portuguese tombs: 1) ‘Medieval Women commemorated as readers: the iconography of reading as a specific feature of female Portuguese medieval monuments’ delivered by Joana Ramôa Melo ofContinue reading “Fifty Years after Panofsky’s ‘Tomb Sculpture’, conference, London”
Sorolla: the Colour of the Sea, Barcelona
Sorolla: El Color del Mart (The Colour of the Sea), CaixaForum, Barcelona, 12 June – 14 September 2014. Previously shown at the Museo Sorolla, Madrid, from which many of the paintings have been selected along with works from the Museo Thyssen in Malaga. The exhibition focuses on Sorolla’s favourite theme, the sea and the manyContinue reading “Sorolla: the Colour of the Sea, Barcelona”
Susana Solana, Barcelona
Susana Solana, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, 23 May-6 September. A focused display from the Fundació’s collection of the abstract sculptures and installations produced by the Barcelona-born Susana Solana (1946). Since she began her career in the 1980s Solana has become internationally renowned through exhibitions at Kassel Documenta (1987, 1992), São Paolo Bienal (1987) and the Venice BiennaleContinue reading “Susana Solana, Barcelona”
José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781-1859) Drawings, Santander
José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781-1859) Drawings, Fundación Botín, Santander, 12 June – 14 September. Exhibition of a previously unpublicized aspect of Madrazo’s work, including many drawings from the hundreds of previously unknown works recently discovered by the Prado in the hands of Madrazo’s descendants. The exhibition includes 61 drawings, four prints and four oilsContinue reading “José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781-1859) Drawings, Santander”
Fotografía en España,1850-1870, Madrid
Spanish Photography (1850-1870) in the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, 27 May – 14 September, 2014. Photographs by named and anonymous artists working in Spain such as Charles Clifford, Jean Laurent, José Martínez Sánchez, Alonso Martínez y Hermano, José Spreafico and Joaquín Pedrosa.
Prado New Acquisitions (2013)
The Prado has put on display (from April 2014 onwards) in the appropriate gallery rooms its acquisitions over the last year. These include six Spanish paintings: two early works painted by Alonso Cano before 1638, St Teresa of Avila’s Vision of Christ Crucified and St Teresa’s Vision of the Resurrected Christ (or) The Mystic MarriageContinue reading “Prado New Acquisitions (2013)”
El Greco and Modern Painting, Madrid
El Greco y la Pintura Moderna (El Greco and Modern Painting), Prado Museum, Madrid, 24 June – 5 October 2014. The latest of the exhibitions in Spain devoted to the Cretan’s art and influence focuses on the rediscovery of El Greco by nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern and avant-garde artists in France, Germany, Spain and NorthContinue reading “El Greco and Modern Painting, Madrid”
España de Moda, Madrid
España de Moda (Fifty years of Spanish Fashion), Museo del Traje, Madrid, 13 May – 31 August 2014. Exhibition of dress, drawings and posters. Includes interviews with leading Spanish fashion designers from the 1960s onwards, who developed from being producers of luxury goods to adapting to new economic factors in the 1970s and introducing prêt-a-porterContinue reading “España de Moda, Madrid”
Cristina Rodriguez: Manchester Cathedral
Cristina Rodrigues: Women from My Country, Manchester Cathedral, 3 July – 21 September. A 3-part installation, sponsored by the Arts Council, will be unveiled by the Portuguese-born Manchester-based artist. The 3 works are individually entitled The Queen, Enlightenment and Blanket, the latter made from adufes, square tambourines traditionally played by women in central inland Portugal,Continue reading “Cristina Rodriguez: Manchester Cathedral”
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