Author Archives: tomnickson2013

ARTES AGM in Oxford, Thursday 14 June, 2018

10:00 Campion Hall, Brewer St, Oxford OX1 1QS — http://www.campion.ox.ac.uk Established in 1896, Campion Hall holds extensive collections, including in the areas of Iberian & Latin American art. Visit Led by Professor Peter Davidson, Senior Research Fellow & Archivist ***Attendees are asked to arrive punctually, as late arrivals may be difficult to  accommodate*** 12:00 Taylor Institution St.Continue reading “ARTES AGM in Oxford, Thursday 14 June, 2018”

Lecture, ‘Images, devotion and emotion in 13th- and 14th-century Castile’. 5pm, Wednesday 18th April, 2018. Courtauld Institute of Art

Fernando Gutiérrez Baños (University of Valladolid), ‘Images, devotion and emotion in 13th- and 14th-century Castile’. 5pm, Wednesday 18th April 2018. Courtauld Institute of Art What was the role of images in the religious experience of Castilian people of the 13th and 14th centuries? There is no clear answer, and the scarcity of written evidence has prompted muchContinue reading “Lecture, ‘Images, devotion and emotion in 13th- and 14th-century Castile’. 5pm, Wednesday 18th April, 2018. Courtauld Institute of Art”

Lecture: Felipe Pereda, ‘Images’ Oblivious Memory: Funerary Laments from Ancient Greece to El Greco’. Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 4pm, Thursday 25th January, 2018

Felipe Pereda (Harvard), will give the inaugural lecture for the 2018-19 Coll & Cortes Medieval Spain Seminar Series at 4pm on Thursday 25th January in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. An old narrative tradition going back to Ancient Egypt but documented across the Mediterranean – from the MiddleContinue reading “Lecture: Felipe Pereda, ‘Images’ Oblivious Memory: Funerary Laments from Ancient Greece to El Greco’. Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 4pm, Thursday 25th January, 2018”

Lecture: ” The Palace of Pedro I in Seville, ‘very much like the residence of the Muslim kings’?”, SOAS, 7pm, 11 October 2017

ISLAMIC ART CIRCLE at SOAS Monthly Lecture The Palace of Pedro I in Seville, ‘very much like the residence of the Muslim kings’? Dr Tom Nickson Wednesday, 11 October 2017 7.00 p.m., Khalili Lecture Theatre, Main Building, SOAS Chaired by Professor Hugh Kennedy Enquiries: rosalindhaddon@gmail.com

Job: Assistant Curator, Spanish Gallery, Auckland Castle, UK

Auckland Castle Trust is seeking an Assistant Curator to support the Senior Curator: Spanish Art in the delivery of the Spanish Gallery project. Salary: £19,500 to £21,500 Click here to see the full job description Please send a CV and covering letter of no more than 2 sides to recruitment@aucklandcastle.org by July 5 2017

Lecture: Tom Nickson on ‘Sensing the Holy: Architecture and the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Spain’

The London Society for Medieval Studies is hosting a lecture on Tuesday, January 24th at 7.00pm by: Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) presenting on: ‘Sensing the Holy: Architecture and the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Spain’. Wolfson Room (NB01), IHR Basement, Senate House (located on Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU). All thoseContinue reading “Lecture: Tom Nickson on ‘Sensing the Holy: Architecture and the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Spain’”

Curators in Conversation: Ribera across the Generations. 6:30-8:30 pm, Thursday 9th February, 2017

  With Gabriele Finaldi (Director, The National Gallery) & Edward Payne (Senior Curator: Spanish Art, Auckland Castle Trust) at Colnaghi, 26 Bury Street, London SW1Y 6AL ARTES welcomes Gabriele Finaldi, curator of Ribera: Master of Drawing at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (22 November 2016 – 19 February 2017), in conversation with Edward Payne,Continue reading “Curators in Conversation: Ribera across the Generations. 6:30-8:30 pm, Thursday 9th February, 2017”

Call for Submissions: Travel scholarships, deadline 31 January 2019

Thanks to the generous support of art dealers Coll & Cortés, ARTES offers travel scholarships for BA and postgraduate students at UK universities who are working on any aspect of Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American visual culture before 1800. Final year undergraduates and postgraduate students registered for a full or part-time degree course at a UK university may applyContinue reading “Call for Submissions: Travel scholarships, deadline 31 January 2019”