Film screening: The Apocalyptic Visions of Heaven and Hell which Shaped Medieval Art

Film Screening, followed by Q&A: The Apocalyptic Visions of Heaven and Hell which Shaped Medieval Art Monday 12 October 2015 – 6:00 pm   Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, UK, WC2R 0RN. Further information: 2015.10.12_Beatus film screening  

Golden Age of Neapolitan Painting (Montpellier, Musée Fabre)

The Golden Age of Neapolitan Painting From Ribera to Giordano Exhibition, Musée Fabre, Montpellier 20 June to 11 October 2015 A national loan exhibition exploring 17th-century Neapolitan painting displaying about ten works by Ribera, including his Portrait of a Club-footed Boy, shown alongside work by his Neapolitan contemporaries.

SelgasCano, Serpentine Pavilion 2015 (London: 25 June – 18 October 2015)

SelgasCano has designed the 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavillion Serpentine Gallery Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park, London Open to visitors until 18 October 2015. The Spanish architectural practice SelgasCano unveiled the 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion on the lawns outside the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park on 25 June. It has been designed as multifunctional reception and café spaceContinue reading “SelgasCano, Serpentine Pavilion 2015 (London: 25 June – 18 October 2015)”

CFP: Framing the Renaissance in the 21st Century: Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2016

62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Boston, 31 March–2 April 2016 Park Plaza Hotel and Hynes Convention Center Call for Papers: Framing the Renaissance in the 21st Century (Deadline: June 5, 2015) Claire Farago’s 1995 edited volume, Reframing the Renaissance, has had a tremendous impact on the field of early modern artContinue reading “CFP: Framing the Renaissance in the 21st Century: Renaissance Society of America, Boston 2016”

SKIN: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON HISPANIC ARTS AND CULTURES. Friday, 22nd May 2015

SKIN: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON HISPANIC ARTS AND CULTURES Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green, Durham  Friday, 22 May 2015 To register for the event, please email the organizer (a.m.beresford@durham.ac.uk) indicating if you have any special dietary requirements. There is no registration fee, but all participants will be asked to complete a short impactContinue reading “SKIN: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON HISPANIC ARTS AND CULTURES. Friday, 22nd May 2015”

Scholarship report from Costanza Beltrami, winner of a 2014 Artes Coll & Cortes Travel Scholarship

Thanks to the ARTES-Coll & Cortés Travel Scholarship, I travelled to Spain in June to visit buildings designed by the fifteenth-century French master mason Juan Guas. During a previous trip, I visited the monastery of San Juan de Los Reyes in Toledo. Designed by Guas, this monastery is a royal foundation established to celebrate theContinue reading “Scholarship report from Costanza Beltrami, winner of a 2014 Artes Coll & Cortes Travel Scholarship”

Scholarship report from Ana Hernández, winner of the 2014 ARTES Coll y Cortes Scholarships for students wishing to conduct research in the UK

The research undertaken in the United Kingdom thanks to the ARTES / Coll&Cortés scholarship has been included in the framework of my doctoral thesis, ‘Tradition and copy in biblical manuscript illumination in the Iberian Peninsula. The Bibles of San Isidoro de León (1162) and San Millán de la Cogolla (ca. 1200)’, supervised by Dr. JoséContinue reading “Scholarship report from Ana Hernández, winner of the 2014 ARTES Coll y Cortes Scholarships for students wishing to conduct research in the UK”

Gabriele Finaldi, National Gallery, London

Gabriele Finaldi to take up his new position as Director of the National Gallery, London, on 17 August 2015. Dr Finaldi, a British citizen, is currently Deputy Director for Collections and Research at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid where he has been since 2002. He was formerly a curator at the National Gallery, London, betweenContinue reading “Gabriele Finaldi, National Gallery, London”

Miguel Falomir Faus, Museo Nacional del Prado

The Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional del Prado has announced the appointment of Miguel Falomir Faus, current head of the Department of Italian Renaissance painting, as the Museum’s new Deputy Director for Collections and Research, succeeding Gabriele Finaldi, who has recently been appointed the new Director of the National Gallery in London.

CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins

CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins Deadline: 13 May 2015 In recent years, meta-critical studies such as Ideologies of Hispanism (2005), Spain Beyond Spain (2005), Reading Iberia (2007), Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI (2011) and Iberian Modalities (2013) have sought to uncover the ideological discourses underlying Hispanic StudiesContinue reading “CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins”