Maeve O’Donnell, PhD candidate, Courtauld Institute of Art, reports on her travels sponsored by this scholarship The ARTES Coll y Cortes Travel Scholarship allowed me to complete archival research central to my doctoral thesis. Textual sources have been indispensable to my investigation into thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Castilian altars because many of these altars and theirContinue reading “ARTES Coll & Cortes 2015 Travel Scholarship report”
Monthly Archives: October 2015
ARTES Coll & Cortes 2015 PhD scholarship report. ‘The Apocalypse in early medieval Iberia: the function and impact of the illuminated “Beatus” ‘
A report by Ana de Oliveira Dias, PhD candidate at Durham University, on the research she is conducting with the help of her scholarship My Ph.D focuses on the illustrated copies of Beatus of Liébana’s In Apocalypsin, generally known as the Hispanic ‘Beatus’. Alongside Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, Beatus’s Commentary is regarded as a fundamentalContinue reading “ARTES Coll & Cortes 2015 PhD scholarship report. ‘The Apocalypse in early medieval Iberia: the function and impact of the illuminated “Beatus” ‘”
GOYA PORTRAITS – THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON – LUNCHTIME TALKS
EXHIBITION EVENTS GOYA THE PORTRAITS The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre Lunchtime Talks – Free, no booking Courses – £14/£12 concession/£10 members October-December 2015 1.00-1.45pm OCTOBER Lunchtime talk Thursday 29 October Goya & the Duchess of Alba Marcus B. Burke Senior Curator, Museum Department, The Hispanic Society of America, New York NOVEMBER Course (Sainsbury WingContinue reading “GOYA PORTRAITS – THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON – LUNCHTIME TALKS”
The British Spanish Society Event – Emerging from the Shadows – Centenary Concert & Goya Presentation by Coro Cervantes & Dr Jacqueline Cockburn – St James’s Church, London W1U 3QY – Wed 18 November 2015 – 7.00 for 7.30pm
A British Spanish Society Event Wednesday 18th November 2015 “Emerging from the Shadows” Centenary Concert and Goya Presentation by Coro Cervantes and Dr Jacqueline Cockburn Venue St James’s Roman Catholic Church Spanish Place, 22 George St, London W1U 3QY Time 7.00pm for 7.30pm performance As “Goya: The Portraits” opens at the National Gallery, the British-Spanish SocietyContinue reading “The British Spanish Society Event – Emerging from the Shadows – Centenary Concert & Goya Presentation by Coro Cervantes & Dr Jacqueline Cockburn – St James’s Church, London W1U 3QY – Wed 18 November 2015 – 7.00 for 7.30pm”
Conference – Romanesque Art: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage – 4-6 April 2016 – Oxford
The British Archeological Society Conference 4-6 April 2016, Rewley House, Oxford Romanesque Art: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage A Three-Day International Conference concerned with the material culture of sanctity to be held in Oxford. There will also be an opportunity to stay on for a further two days of visits The British Archaeological Association will holdContinue reading “Conference – Romanesque Art: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage – 4-6 April 2016 – Oxford”
Call for Papers: Spain and Orientalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Association of Art Historians conference (Edinburgh, 7-9 April 2016)
Spain represents a unique and fertile context in which to explore attitudes to the art and culture of the Islamic world. Spain was routinely ‘orientalised’ by northern European cultures in the 19th century, as foreign visitors indulged in oriental reveries when reflecting on Spain’s Islamic past (711–1492) and admiring its ‘Moorish’ remains at the AlhambraContinue reading “Call for Papers: Spain and Orientalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Association of Art Historians conference (Edinburgh, 7-9 April 2016)”
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