Thanks to the ARTES-Coll & Cortés Travel Scholarship, I travelled to Spain in June to visit buildings designed by the fifteenth-century French master mason Juan Guas. During a previous trip, I visited the monastery of San Juan de Los Reyes in Toledo. Designed by Guas, this monastery is a royal foundation established to celebrate theContinue reading “Scholarship report from Costanza Beltrami, winner of a 2014 Artes Coll & Cortes Travel Scholarship”
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Scholarship report from Ana Hernández, winner of the 2014 ARTES Coll y Cortes Scholarships for students wishing to conduct research in the UK
The research undertaken in the United Kingdom thanks to the ARTES / Coll&Cortés scholarship has been included in the framework of my doctoral thesis, ‘Tradition and copy in biblical manuscript illumination in the Iberian Peninsula. The Bibles of San Isidoro de León (1162) and San Millán de la Cogolla (ca. 1200)’, supervised by Dr. JoséContinue reading “Scholarship report from Ana Hernández, winner of the 2014 ARTES Coll y Cortes Scholarships for students wishing to conduct research in the UK”
Joana Vasconcelos: Waddesdon Manor
Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire The Portuguese sculptor has unveiled the latest of her installations: a monumental pair of 7-metre-tall candlesticks created from glass wine bottles, on display at the North entrance of the 19th-century country house of the Rothschild family at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. They have been bought for the Manor’s contemporary artContinue reading “Joana Vasconcelos: Waddesdon Manor”
Itinerarios XXI, Fundación Botín, Santander, 28 March – 31 May 2015 Exhibition of works by nine Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American contemporary artists who are the recipients of the 21st Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grants for 2013-2014. Carles Congost (Gerona, 1970), Albert Corbí (Valencia, 1976), Patricia Esquivias (Caracas, 1979), Jon Mikel Euba (Vizcaya, 1967), RodrigoContinue reading
Equipo Crónica, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015
Equipo Crónica, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015 The most extensive retrospective to date of nearly 150 paintings, drawings, prints, posters and sculptures, covering Equipo Crónica’s entire creative career from 1964 when three Valencian artists, Rafael Solbes (1940-1981), Manuel Valdés (1942) and Juan Antonio Toledo (1940-1995) established the group, to 1981Continue reading “Equipo Crónica, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015”
Helena Almeida and Lourdes Castro, London, 27 March – 22 May 2015
Helena Almeida, Inhabited Drawings/Desenhos habitados, showing at Richard Saltoun Gallery, Great Titfield Street, London W1W 6RV, 27 March – 22 May, along with work by her Madeira-born contemporary Lourdes Castro (b.1930). This is the first London show for Portuguese artist Helena Almeida, a student of the University of Fine Art, Lisbon, who has developed aContinue reading “Helena Almeida and Lourdes Castro, London, 27 March – 22 May 2015”
Spain and England: Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More: Exeter (UK), 13 April – 13 May 2015
Spain and England: Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies presents an exhibition on two Renaissance Humanists, the Valencian Juan Luis Vives and the Englishman Sir Thomas More. The Street Gallery, University of Exeter 13th April – 13th May 2015 from 9am to 5pm The exhibition, which premièred inContinue reading “Spain and England: Juan Luis Vives and Thomas More: Exeter (UK), 13 April – 13 May 2015”
Gabriele Finaldi, National Gallery, London
Gabriele Finaldi to take up his new position as Director of the National Gallery, London, on 17 August 2015. Dr Finaldi, a British citizen, is currently Deputy Director for Collections and Research at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid where he has been since 2002. He was formerly a curator at the National Gallery, London, betweenContinue reading “Gabriele Finaldi, National Gallery, London”
Miguel Falomir Faus, Museo Nacional del Prado
The Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional del Prado has announced the appointment of Miguel Falomir Faus, current head of the Department of Italian Renaissance painting, as the Museum’s new Deputy Director for Collections and Research, succeeding Gabriele Finaldi, who has recently been appointed the new Director of the National Gallery in London.
CFP: Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800. Deadline: 8 May 2015
CAA 2016 session Washington, DC 3-6 February 2016 CFP: Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800 Sponsored by ASHAHS. Chair: Professor Ilenia Colón Mendoza: ilenia.colonmendoza@ucf.edu
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