PhotoEspaña 2015

PhotoEspaña 2015 Photographic exhibitions in venues across Spain (including Madrid, Alcala de Henares, Cuenca and Zaragoza), from June to September 2015. In its 18th year it is focusing on Latin American photography. The programme includes, in Madrid (Galería EspacioFoto): Miguel Bergasa: Miradas en Latinoamerica (3 June – 31 July), 28 photos taken between 1983-2013 inContinue reading “PhotoEspaña 2015”

Exhibition: Manuel Carillo, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

Manuel Carrillo: Mi querido México Museo Lazzaro Galdiano, Madrid 4 June – 30 August 2015 Shows about 50 photographs by Carillo from the collection of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch juxtaposed with works by fellow Mexican and North American photographers, such as Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Having startedContinue reading “Exhibition: Manuel Carillo, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid”

Exhibition: Rosario Weiss, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

Drawings by Rosario Weiss from the Lazaro Collection, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid  14 May – 29 June 2015 Exhibiting some 36 drawings (from a collection of 58) by the goddaughter and follower of Goya, who learned her drawing and lithographic print-making skills alongside Goya in the 1820s in Madrid and Bordeaux. Her miniature portraits andContinue reading “Exhibition: Rosario Weiss, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid”

Exhibition: Vicente Carducho, Madrid, May – September 2016

  Vicente Carducho: teoría y práctica del dibujo en el Siglo de Oro, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, 29 May – 6 September 2015. Major exhibition of drawings, many never shown before, by Vicente Carducho (Florence 1576-1638 Madrid), a key artist at the Spanish court. Accompanied by contextualizing documents and prints by Carducho’s contemporaries drawnContinue reading “Exhibition: Vicente Carducho, Madrid, May – September 2016”

New book on the Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory

The Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory was the last 18th century royal factory to be created (under Carlos III), yet was almost entirely forgotten. Read all about it in this new publication: Isadora Rose-de Viejo, La Real Fábrica de Papeles Pintados de Madrid (1786-1836): Arte, artesanía, industria. Madrid (Ediciones Cátedra-Grandes Temas núm. 64), 2015, 258 págs.,Continue reading “New book on the Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory”

First Durham-Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies, 9-10 July 2015

First Durham-Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies Primer Coloquio de Estudios Hispánicos Medievales y del Siglo de Oro (Universidades de Durham y de Northumbria) Registration is now open. Venue: Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne), Sutherland Building Date: 9-10 July 2015 Programme: 2015-06-FirstDurhamNorthumbria MedievalGoldenAgeProgramme    

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”