ARTES member Maria Vittoria Spissu has organised a symposium with the title ‘Empire of Role Models? Championing and Challenging Global Ideals in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds’. The symposium will take place on the 19th and 20th June at the University of Bologna. Full details of the symposium and the programme are contained in the flyerContinue reading “‘EMPIRE OF ROLE MODELS?’ SYMPOSIUM 19-20 JUNE 2025 UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA”
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Mario Vargas Llosa – a tribute
The following is a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa by Susan Wilson, an ARTES Trustee, Painter, and Senior Member of The Royal Drawing School. Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian novelist, journalist, and politician, was born on 28th March 1936 and died in Lima on 13th April 2025. As Susan explains Vargas Llosa had a significant influenceContinue reading “Mario Vargas Llosa – a tribute”
ARTES Nigel Glendinning Lecture 2025
The annual ARTES Nigel Glendinning Lecture of 2025: Problems in Velázquez’s Portraiture will be given in person by Dr. Peter Cherry on 29 May from 6.30pm (BST) at the Instituto Cervantes, 15-19 Devereux Ct, London, WC2R 3JJ. The event will also be live streamed. Tickets for in-person and online attendance can be obtained at the followingContinue reading “ARTES Nigel Glendinning Lecture 2025”
SAVE THE DATE!
We have two very important upcoming ARTES events: First, our annual Glendinning Lecture will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 29th May at the Instituto Cervantes in London. This year’s speaker will be Emeritus Professor Peter Cherry of Trinity College, Dublin, who will deliver a lecture on ‘Problems in Velázquez’. Peter’s work will be known to manyContinue reading “SAVE THE DATE!”
Scholarship Opportunity – The Klesch Collection Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Painting
The Klesch Collection is proud to support academic excellence and is committed to promotingthe training of the next generation of Art Historians through a scholarship for graduate studies inBaroque and Renaissance painting. These scholarships have supported the global studies ofgraduate students (MA, MPhil, or PhD level), with the aim of contributing to their academic andprofessionalContinue reading “Scholarship Opportunity – The Klesch Collection Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Painting”
Goya’s ‘Aníbal vencedor, que por primera vez mira Italia desde los Alpes’ (Hannibal victorious, who for the first time looks at Italy from the Alps) donated to the Prado by the Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado
Please click here to see a video of Miguel Falomir, director of the Museo del Prado, and Nuria de Miguel, directory of the Fundación Amigos Museo del Prado, discussing the donation (in Spanish) Please click here for more information about the significance of this donation
Claudie Ressort (1933-2021)
Claudie Ressort, who died in Paris on 9th February 2021 at the age of eighty-seven, was for many years in charge of Spanish Paintings in the Louvre Museum. During her career spent entirely in that institution, she worked endlessly to defend the cause of Spanish Art and the place it should have in such aContinue reading “Claudie Ressort (1933-2021)”
CANCELLED : 6.00 PM ARTES/ Zurbarán Centre seminar – Roberto Conduru : Magic, crime and art in early 20th century Afro-Brazilian religions (17/2/21)
Unfortunately tonight’s seminar by Professor Roberto Conduru is cancelled due to the power cuts in Dallas where the speaker is based. We hope to re-schedule the seminar at a later date. We will post updates here on the ARTES site when we have more information.
A tribute to Ian Robertson, by Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson writes: I have a dog eared copy of Robertson’s Blue Guide to Spain which I bought in 1977. I had hitchhiked around Spain in 1976 for three months curious to see what was happening to the country-after the death of Franco. I was 25 and interested in politics. Many journeys followed, always withContinue reading “A tribute to Ian Robertson, by Susan Wilson”
Ian Robertson – Hispanophile and Richard Ford Scholar
Ian Robertson, who has died aged 92, embarked on a lifetime’s scholarship on Spain and a prodigious production of travel guides inspired by an unlikely combination of the Duke of Wellington’s campaigns in the Peninsular War and Richard Ford’s accounts of his Spanish journeys. He became a leading authority on both. His Spanish interests ledContinue reading “Ian Robertson – Hispanophile and Richard Ford Scholar”
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