Deadline: 20 June 2022 The Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art at Durham University is seeking to recruit two research fellows to undertake research into the collection of the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland, starting on 1 October 2022 and 30 June 2023. The two fellowships are affiliated with the Zurbarán Centre andContinue reading “Zurbarán Centre Spanish Gallery Collection Research Fellowships, 1 October 2022 and 30 June 2023”
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Maius Workshop Meeting: Identity (Part 2), 24 May 2022, Online, 5pm (BST)
Join us on Zoom at 5:00 pm (UK) on 24 May for the Maius Workshop’s new event. To attend, please register here: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4NafoeRSTPyyQMwVII-TKw As in previous meetings, this workshop will feature short informal presentations followed by discussion. Questions will be accepted in English and Spanish. Our line-up includes: Isabel Escalera, ‘Creating a Feminine Identity ThroughContinue reading “Maius Workshop Meeting: Identity (Part 2), 24 May 2022, Online, 5pm (BST)”
1492 | 1992 | 2022 – A Roundtable Rethinking the legacies of 1492, University of Oxford, 30 May 2022, 4-6pm
CFP – Hispanic Art in British Regional Collections: History, Display, Research Conference, hosted by the Zurbarán Centre, Durham University, 22–23 September 2022
Deadline: 27 May 2022 British regional galleries are extraordinarily rich in holdings of Hispanic art. County Durham alone has the largest concentration of Spanish artworks anywhere in the world outside Spain. In addition to Francisco de Zurbarán’s cycle of Jacob and his Twelve Sons at Auckland Castle, significant holdings can be found at The BowesContinue reading “CFP – Hispanic Art in British Regional Collections: History, Display, Research Conference, hosted by the Zurbarán Centre, Durham University, 22–23 September 2022”
TODAY – Online Talk at The Wallace Collection | Meet the Expert: David Roberts’s Travels, Dr Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink and Professor Claudia Hopkins, 1pm BST
Date: Thursday 21 April 2022Time: 13.00-14.00 BSTLocation: Zoom and YouTube (Online) Speakers: Dr Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, Enriqueta Harris Frankfort Curatorial Fellow, The Wallace Collection, and Professor Claudia Hopkins, Director of Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art Description: Victorian artist-adventurer David Roberts (1796-1864) travelled extensively in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, creating countless images ofContinue reading “TODAY – Online Talk at The Wallace Collection | Meet the Expert: David Roberts’s Travels, Dr Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink and Professor Claudia Hopkins, 1pm BST”
TONIGHT: 2022 Glendinning Lecture | Juan Gris: the environment of collage, by Prof. Elizabeth Cowling (University of Edinburgh)
Between 1906, when he settled in Paris, and 1912, Gris made his living as a cartoonist and illustrator for Spanish and French magazines. His drawings were narrative and, mostly, comical and satirical in tone. In his Cubist collages and papiers collés of 1912-14 figures are absent but narrative situations and social and political references areContinue reading “TONIGHT: 2022 Glendinning Lecture | Juan Gris: the environment of collage, by Prof. Elizabeth Cowling (University of Edinburgh)”
TOMORROW: Zurbaran Centre-ARTES Seminar Series | Dr Juan Ricardo Rey-Márquez (Buenos Aires), ‘Simulated Nature: Colour and texture in the eighteenth-century botanical drawings of José Celestino Mutis and his circle’, 9 March, 6.00 PM (GMT)
We are pleased to announce the sixth seminar of our Research Seminar Series: 9 March, 6.00 PM (GMT), Dr Juan Ricardo Rey-Márquez (Buenos Aires), ‘Simulated Nature: Colour and texture in the eighteenth-century botanical drawings of José Celestino Mutis and his circle‘ Abstract: During the last quarter of the 18th century, the Spanish crown sponsored several expeditions throughoutContinue reading “TOMORROW: Zurbaran Centre-ARTES Seminar Series | Dr Juan Ricardo Rey-Márquez (Buenos Aires), ‘Simulated Nature: Colour and texture in the eighteenth-century botanical drawings of José Celestino Mutis and his circle’, 9 March, 6.00 PM (GMT)”
Zurbarán Centre-ARTES Online Seminar Series | Colonial Latin America and Materiality
Jointly organised by Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre, the ARTES Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group and the Instituto Cervantes, this live online seminar series provides an open forum for engaging with innovative research relating to the visual arts in the Hispanic world. The forthcoming three seminars focus on colonial Latin America and materiality. 9Continue reading “Zurbarán Centre-ARTES Online Seminar Series | Colonial Latin America and Materiality “
Professor David Davies, 1937-2022
David Davies was an active member of ARTES since its inception. A Welshman from the Valleys, David was a middle weight champion boxer in his youth. He joined UCL in 1967 and is said to have put the History of Art Department on its feet. He was ‘a teacher enraptured by his subject matter’ (CharlesContinue reading “Professor David Davies, 1937-2022”
ARTES CEEH Scholarship Report |’“Fancy pictures”? The British Reception of Murillo, 1650-1900′, Alexandra Millón Maté (PhD Candidate, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
My research stay in England and Scotland lasted 45 days between September 1st and October 15th, 2021. During this time, I have had the privilege of visiting more than sixty institutions, public and private, where I have been able to study the History of the reception of genre painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville, 1617-1682)Continue reading “ARTES CEEH Scholarship Report |’“Fancy pictures”? The British Reception of Murillo, 1650-1900′, Alexandra Millón Maté (PhD Candidate, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)”
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