Category Archives: ARTES

ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarships 2023!

ARTES is delighted to announce the winners of our annual travel scholarships, generously supported by CEEH. Philip Muijtjens, Cambridge University – £750 for travel to Burgos A Spanish Patron in Fifteenth-Century Rome and Burgos: Bishop Juan Díaz de Coca (d.1477) Born into a family of conversos, Juan Díaz de Coca (1389-1477) started his ecclesiastical careerContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarships 2023!”

ARTES-CEEH Scholars 2023!

ARTES is delighted to announce our scholars for 2023, with thanks as always to CEEH for their generous support. Further information on our annual scholarships is available here. Scholarship for students studying for a PhD in the UK: Daniela Castro Ruiz, Durham University The Bestiario de Don Juan de Austria in the Context of Fifteenth-Continue reading “ARTES-CEEH Scholars 2023!”

2023 Jonathan Brown Award Winner – Romantic Spain: David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil

ARTES would like to extend a warm congratulations to Dr. Claudia Hopkins, an active member and the inaugural winner of the 2023 Jonathan Brown Award for her work Romantic Spain: David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil, a richly illustrated catalogue that accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Real Academia de Bellas ArtesContinue reading “2023 Jonathan Brown Award Winner – Romantic Spain: David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil”

The Ethiopian at the Door: Fantasy, Literality, and Race in the Cantigas de Santa María

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 4:00–5:30pm (EST) / 9:00 – 10:30pm (GMT) A Zoom Lecture by Dr. Pamela Patton, Princeton UniversityZoom Hosted by by Montclair’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar. A Lecture by Dr. Pamela Patton, Princeton University Wednesday, Feb. 22, 4:00–5:30pm (EST) / 9:00 – 10:30pm (GMT) on Zoom Password: 807586

We are delighted to announce that the next Zurbarán Centre-ARTES Research Seminar will take place on 20 February at 18.00 (GMT), on zoom: 

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, “The library of the Marquis of Santillana (d. 1458) and the cultural networks of the European Renaissance”. The talk relates to the exhibition El Marqués de Santillana: Imágenes y letras (Museo Nacional del Prado and the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Oct. 2022- Jan. 2023) and will focus on the books commissioned by Íñigo LópezContinue reading “We are delighted to announce that the next Zurbarán Centre-ARTES Research Seminar will take place on 20 February at 18.00 (GMT), on zoom: “

ARTES-CEEH PhD Scholarship Report 2023

Thanks to the generous support of ARTES-CEEH PhD. Scholarship, I conducted my research in London last November and made significant advances in my PhD thesis’s archive work. My Thesis is titled Isidro Gálvez y los dibujos de la Flora peruviana et chilensis, supervised by Dr Ángel Justo Estebaranz at Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). My workContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH PhD Scholarship Report 2023”

ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Report – Kirk Patrick H. Testa

Investigating the Spanish Roots of Filipino Catholic Devotion through the Santo Niño de Cebú Through the generous funding of the Artes-CEEH Travel Scholarship, I was able to conduct invaluable research not only for my Courtauld History of Art MA dissertation but also for a future publication. By visiting the cities of Barcelona and Madrid, IContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Report – Kirk Patrick H. Testa”

ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report: Eva Sierra

Thanks to the generous support of the ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship, I was able to carry out some research at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, Spain, in June 2021. The topic of my dissertation, The Archangel Saint Michael in the Fifteenth-century Crown of Aragon: a different perspective, gives an idea of the period I needed toContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report: Eva Sierra”

ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Report: Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández

In 2021 I was awarded an ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship for the project “My darling, fly thou: New iconography of the Song of Songs in Iberian medieval sculpture”. Unfortunately, Covid forced me to delay my research and I was unable to pursue my work until this Autumn. In fact, I am currently at the British LibraryContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Report: Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández”