ARTES is delighted to share the ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Reports of the 2023 recipients. As always, these scholarships are generously supported with the aid of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica).
Further information on our annual scholarships can be found here.
2023 ARTES-CEEH UK PhD Scholarship Report
ARTES-CEEH UK PhD Scholarship Report | Daniela Castro Ruiz, Durham University (FULL REPORT)
The Bestiario de Don Juan de Austria in the Context of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spanish Illuminated Manuscripts
My PhD examines the Bestiario de Don Juan de Austria (c.1570), the only extant bestiary composed in Castilian and the only one that is extensively illustrated, offering depictions of a range of creatures, from the mythical (the unicorn, the phoenix, etc) through to the exotic (the parrot, the hippopotamus, etc) and the everyday (the dog, the dolphin, etc) in a range of natural landscape settings completed by signifiers of society. The aim is to understand the relationship between image and the text, looking principally at questions of visual reception.
2023 ARTES-CEEH Spanish PhD Scholarship Report
ARTES-CEEH Spanish PhD Scholarship Report | Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón, University of Murcia (FULL REPORT)
Portraiture, Gender, and the Construction of the Image of Power in the Formation of the Royal Collection and the Prado Museum
This project studies the formation of the Spanish and British royal collections with a special emphasis on portraiture and gender. Starting with Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand or Aragon and Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, the portrait exchanges between the Tudor dynasty and the Spanish Monarchy were the foundation of the extensive collections amassed by the royal houses of Great Britain and Spain. Women played an important role in this development but have been often overlooked. This study will vindicate their trailblazing role as patrons of the arts in the construction of the image of royal power.
2023 ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Reports
ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report | Philip Muijtjens, King’s College – University of Cambridge (FULL REPORT)
The ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship enabled me to travel to the beautiful town of Burgos in May 2023 to carry out extensive archival research on the Spanish bishop and legal scholar Juan Díaz de Coca (d.1477).
Juan de Coca’s life is interesting for a number of reasons: he was from a family of conversos in Castille and he also became one of the most senior judges in the Catholic Church. During his busy and eventful life, he was very interested with his own burial and commemoration. During his time in Rome, he commissioned one of the most important fifteenth-century funerary monuments which can still be viewed in the Eternal City. Shortly before his death, however, he changed his mind and chose the cathedral of Burgos as his final resting place.
ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report | Helena Santidrián Mas, Courtauld Institute of Art (FULL REPORT)
An Annunciation from the Museo de la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela reconsidered: iconography, original placement and current display.
The main aim of my trip was to see several sculptural groups which represented Pregnant
Annunciations, still in situ in their chapels or naves, unlike the one in Santiago.
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