ONLY A FEW PLACES STILL AVAILABLE – Please contact Susan Wilson at susanruddwilson@gmail.com ASAP if you wish to attend. We are pleased to let ARTES members know that a small visit to Artemisia Gentileschi will take place on Wednesday December 9th at 0915. Gentileschi spent some years working in Naples (from 1630- until her death,Continue reading “RESCHEDULED for 9th December: Artemisia Gentileschi Visit to the National Gallery”
Author Archives: jamiehaskell
Christmas in Puebla – a new album of 17th-century Mexican music
Please click here to buy the album, listen to a preview, or for more information By the early 1620s – when Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla migrated from Cádiz to New Spain (modernday Mexico) in search of new horizons as a music director, composer and instrument-maker – the colony was an important and wealthy outpost ofContinue reading “Christmas in Puebla – a new album of 17th-century Mexican music”
Online book launch: Hispanic Studies, Durham University, Dr Yarí Pérez Marín and Professor Andy Beresford, 3rd December 2020, 5-6pm
Click here to register and for more information Yarí Pérez Marín, Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Enquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America Marvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. FocusingContinue reading “Online book launch: Hispanic Studies, Durham University, Dr Yarí Pérez Marín and Professor Andy Beresford, 3rd December 2020, 5-6pm”
Online event hosted by the Royal Academy: Cristina Iglesias in conversation with Norman Foster, RA Architecture Awards Ceremony 2020
As part of its Architecture Awards 2020 the Royal Academy will be hosting an in conversation event online via Zoom between the Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias and the British architect Lord Norman Foster RA on 3rd December 6.30-7.45pm. Click here to book and for additional information The RA will begin by introducing the RA DorfmanContinue reading “Online event hosted by the Royal Academy: Cristina Iglesias in conversation with Norman Foster, RA Architecture Awards Ceremony 2020”
Online Lecture: Masters of the Spanish Golden Age: Velázquez, Cano and Murillo, Director of the Wallace Collection and expert on Spanish art, Dr Xavier Bray, 26 November, 7-8 pm
Talk Description: Among the treasures of the Wallace Collection is a modest but very fine collection of Spanish paintings. They were largely collected by the 4th Marquess of Hertford in the 1830s and 1840s in Paris, when the fashion for collecting Spanish art was at its highest and works by Murillo and Velázquez were muchContinue reading “Online Lecture: Masters of the Spanish Golden Age: Velázquez, Cano and Murillo, Director of the Wallace Collection and expert on Spanish art, Dr Xavier Bray, 26 November, 7-8 pm”
TOMORROW- Online seminar hosted by the Síncrisis research group (see poster below for details):
Please click here to register
The Maius Workshop Returns! 24th November 2020, 5pm, on Zoom
The Maius Workshop is back virtually for the 2020–21 academic year! Please join us for an informal welcome meeting, which will take place on Tuesday 24th November 2020, at 5:00 p.m. on Zoom. This event is open to anyone interested in Hispanic cultures, widely considered: literature and language, history, geography, art and visual culture, medicalContinue reading “The Maius Workshop Returns! 24th November 2020, 5pm, on Zoom”
Online seminar from the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS) in the School of Arts, at Birkbeck University: The destruction of images in the medieval and early modern world: Jews, Muslims, Protestants and Catholics in Iberia, by Professor Borja Franco, 20 November 2020 6-7.30pm
CILAVS warmly invites you to the seminar The destruction of images in the medieval and early modern world: Jews, Muslims, Protestants and Catholics in IberiaProfessor Borja FrancoFriday, 20 November 2020 from 6 to 7.30pm Live Online Book your place now In this paper, Prof Borja Franco presents the main written and visual sources that capturedContinue reading “Online seminar from the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS) in the School of Arts, at Birkbeck University: The destruction of images in the medieval and early modern world: Jews, Muslims, Protestants and Catholics in Iberia, by Professor Borja Franco, 20 November 2020 6-7.30pm”
A Spanish female artist of the early modern period – ‘Finding Luisa Roldán: A North American road trip’, a blog post by Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen
‘The Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) was recognised in her lifetime as an artist of considerable talent. Luisa was born in Seville, the daughter of Pedro Roldán, a prominent sculptor.’ Please click here to read the rest of Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen’s blog post on Art Herstory to find more on Luisa Roldán’s worksContinue reading “A Spanish female artist of the early modern period – ‘Finding Luisa Roldán: A North American road trip’, a blog post by Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen”
Online Conference: Poetry in paint: Titian’s late mythologies, Organised by the National Gallery, November 3rd, 10th, & 17th
An online conference about the history, context and reception of Titian’s mythological paintings, or ‘poesie’, for Philip II. For more information, including ticket prices, the full programme, and how to register, please click here.
ARTES 