Nigel Glendinning Memorial Lecture 2015
Alfonso Pleguezuelo (Seville), ‘Clay: more than just earth and water. The symbolic values of Spanish Baroque ceramics’
A recording of the lecture (as a .wav file) is available here
Alfonso Pleguezuelo is Professor of History of Art at the University of Seville. His doctoral thesis was on the early baroque architecture of Seville. His publications include articles on Spanish Baroque sculpture, especially the work of Luisa Roldán. He has also published widely on Spanish ceramics of the early modern period. He has curated a number of exhibitions in this field, the most recent of which took place in 2014 at the Museum of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and was entitled “The Splendour of Cities. The Route of the Tiles”.