ARTES Private Visit – Xavier Bray – the Dulwich Picture Gallery – Mon 29 June 2015

ARTES Visit Xavier Bray at The Dulwich Picture Gallery The Spanish Paintings & the newly opened Prud’hon Exhibition Monday 29 June 2015 1.30 – 4.30 pm Timetable   1.30: Talk by Xavier Bray   2.15: ARTES AGM   3.15: Tea   3.30: Tour of the Spanish paintings & the Prud’hon exhibition If you would likeContinue reading “ARTES Private Visit – Xavier Bray – the Dulwich Picture Gallery – Mon 29 June 2015”

ARTES Visit to the Barber Institute & the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Mon 6 July 2015

ARTES Visit to Birmingham The Barber Institute of Art & The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) Monday 6 July 2015 11.00 – 16.30 pm This visit is at the kind invitation of Robert Wenley of the Barber Institute who will introduce the key Spanish works. Helen Hillyard, National Gallery Curatorial Trainee at the BMAG, willContinue reading “ARTES Visit to the Barber Institute & the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Mon 6 July 2015”

ARTES Visit – Exhibition – El Greco at the National Gallery – 18 June 2015

ARTES Members Private Visit The National Gallery London  El Greco at the National Gallery Thursday 18 June 2015 8.50 am – 10.00 am (meeting at West Entrance) This visit is at the kind invitation of Curator Letizia Treves of the National Gallery will be talking about the El Greco display. She will be joined byContinue reading “ARTES Visit – Exhibition – El Greco at the National Gallery – 18 June 2015”

CFP: Art and Experience in 15th Century Naples: Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2016

62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Boston, 31 March–2 April 2016 Park Plaza Hotel and Hynes Convention Center Call for Papers: Art and Experience in 15th Century Naples: Defining an Artistic Center (Deadline: May 31, 2015) This panel investigates critical questions surrounding the study of fifteenth-century Neapolitan art. We invite papers thatContinue reading “CFP: Art and Experience in 15th Century Naples: Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2016”

CFP: Framing the Renaissance in the 21st Century: Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2016

62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Boston, 31 March–2 April 2016 Park Plaza Hotel and Hynes Convention Center Call for Papers: Framing the Renaissance in the 21st Century (Deadline: June 5, 2015) Claire Farago’s 1995 edited volume, Reframing the Renaissance, has had a tremendous impact on the field of early modern artContinue reading “CFP: Framing the Renaissance in the 21st Century: Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2016”

CFP: Beyond the Wanderjahr: Microhistories of artistic travel in Renaissance Europe: Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2016

62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Boston, 31 March–2 April 2016 Park Plaza Hotel and Hynes Convention Center CFP: Beyond the Wanderjahr: Microhistories of artistic travel in Renaissance Europe (Deadline: June 6, 2015) Recent scholarship has emphasized the extent to which works of art circulated in fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century Europe, but theContinue reading “CFP: Beyond the Wanderjahr: Microhistories of artistic travel in Renaissance Europe: Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2016”

CFP: Questioning the concept of Mudejar Architecture

QUESTIONING THE CONCEPT OF MUDÉJAR ARCHITECTURE Society of Architectural Historians SAH 69th Annual International Conference, Pasadena/LA, April 6 – 10, 2016 Call for Papers: Questioning the concept of Mudejar Architecture Deadline: Jun 9, 2015 Medieval exchange processes between Muslim Spain, the northern Christian kingdoms and the Sephardic Jews created a specific building style in theContinue reading “CFP: Questioning the concept of Mudejar Architecture”

SKIN: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON HISPANIC ARTS AND CULTURES. Friday, 22nd May 2015

SKIN: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON HISPANIC ARTS AND CULTURES Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green, Durham  Friday, 22 May 2015 To register for the event, please email the organizer (a.m.beresford@durham.ac.uk) indicating if you have any special dietary requirements. There is no registration fee, but all participants will be asked to complete a short impactContinue reading “SKIN: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON HISPANIC ARTS AND CULTURES. Friday, 22nd May 2015”

Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America: Austin, Texas

Exhibition: Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Two-part exhibition: (1) 20 September 2014 – 14 June 2015 (2) July 2015 – 2016 A two-part exhibition, the first phase of which features seven paintings on loan from two of the United States’ most distinguished collections of colonialContinue reading “Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America: Austin, Texas”

Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid

Exhibition: Views of Historic Monuments in Spanish Cities: The Romantic Painter Genaro Pérez Villaamil (Vistas monumentales de ciudades españolas. El pintor romántico Genaro Pérez Villaamil) Room 60 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 17 December 2014 – 6 September 2015 Curated by Javier Barón, this exhibition includes Villaamil’s large Diptych, formed from 42 individual scenes painted on tin-platesContinue reading “Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid”