ARTES is excited to announce the call for applications to the Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize of 2025, funded by the generous support of the Embassy of Spain, for the best art-historical essay on a Hispanic Theme. Please consult the Award section for the full description of the application requirements and the awards.
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REMINDER: 29th January 6pm GMT: Goya’s Caprichos in Nineteenth-Century France: Politics of the Grotesque
The Artes and Zurbarán Center for Spanish and Latin American Art would like to remind members of the upcoming Seminar Series to be held over zoom on January 29th at 6pm GMT, by Dr. Paula Fayos Pérez. Fayos Pérez will be sharing with us her research for the her recent book, Caprichos in Nineteenth-Century France:Continue reading “REMINDER: 29th January 6pm GMT: Goya’s Caprichos in Nineteenth-Century France: Politics of the Grotesque”
ZOOM LECTURE – Daniel Ralston and Gabriele Finaldi, ‘The Spanish Collections of the National Gallery’
ARTES would like to invite everyone to the next session of our seminar series with the Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art. It will be delivered by Daniel Ralston and Gabriele Finaldi who will speak about ‘The Spanish Collections of the National Gallery’ on Wednesday 6th March at 6pm UK time via Zoom. Join ZoomContinue reading “ZOOM LECTURE – Daniel Ralston and Gabriele Finaldi, ‘The Spanish Collections of the National Gallery’”
Becoming Actaeon: Titian and the Conceptual Gaze in Diego Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas
By Isabelle Kent, PhD candidate at University of Cambridge and winner of the ARTES 2023 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize. When: Monday, 4th December 2023 18:00GMTWhere: Instituto Cervantes London (15-19 Devereux Court London WC2R 3JJ) and zoom In the background of Diego Velázquez’s enigmatic masterpiece, Las Hilanderas, the artist summarises with a few bravura strokes aContinue reading “Becoming Actaeon: Titian and the Conceptual Gaze in Diego Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas”
REMINDER: Upcoming ARTES visit TO BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNTY DURHAM – 18th August, 2023
Date: 18th August, 2023 ARTES would like to share a reminder of our upcoming visit to Bishop Auckland. ARTES is organising a long-overdue visit to The Spanish Gallery and Bishop Auckland Castle on Friday 18th August. The visit will coincide with a lecture being given on the Spanish Gallery’s sculpture collection by ARTES President Dr Holly Trusted, who has been workingContinue reading “REMINDER: Upcoming ARTES visit TO BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNTY DURHAM – 18th August, 2023”
ARTES 2023 Nigel Glendinning lecture
“Así repiten aún las piedras”: Juan de Roelas, Seville of 1615, and the City as Substrate Speaker: Dr. Aaron Hyman Date: 25 May 2023, 6 – 7:30 (BST)Place: Lecture Theatre 1 Vernon Square In 1615, Seville erupted with fervent debates about the question of the Virgin’s Immaculacy. Clergymen hoping to sway the hearts and mindsContinue reading “ARTES 2023 Nigel Glendinning lecture”
“Murillo. From Heaven to Earth” – A talk by Guillaume Kientz (Hispanic Society of America).
When: April 18th, 2023 | 6 – 7pm (UK Time) This talk will discuss the research for the exhibition Murillo. From Heaven to Earth curated by Guillaume Kientz at the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth, 18 September 2022 – 29 January 2023. Inspired by the Kimbell’s mysterious Four Figures on a Step, the exhibition focused on Murillo’sContinue reading ““Murillo. From Heaven to Earth” – A talk by Guillaume Kientz (Hispanic Society of America).”
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)”
TONIGHT: Zurbaran Centre-ARTES Seminar | José Ramón Marcaida, Painters’ artimañas. Ingenuity and technique in the age of Velázquez, 9 February 2022, 6.00 PM
A brief reminder that the fifth seminar of our 2022 online Research Seminar Series will take place today at 6.00 PM, UK time. José Ramón Marcaida, Painters’ artimañas. Ingenuity and technique in the age of Velázquez Using the early modern notion of ingenuity (ingenio, in Spanish) as a vantage point, this paper will explore a number of interconnectedContinue reading “TONIGHT: Zurbaran Centre-ARTES Seminar | José Ramón Marcaida, Painters’ artimañas. Ingenuity and technique in the age of Velázquez, 9 February 2022, 6.00 PM”
TONIGHT: Zurbarán Centre-ARTES Seminar | Dr. Maite Barragán, Surrealism and Essentialism in Giménez Caballero’s Esencia de Verbena, 2 February 2022, 6.00 PM
A brief reminder that the fourth seminar of our 2022 online Research Seminar Series will take place today at 6.00 PM, UK time. Dr. Maite Barragán, Assistant Professor, (Albright College), Surrealism and Essentialism in Giménez Caballero’s Esencia de Verbena This paper presents how Esencia de verbena also used aesthetic choices to convey an ambiguous political message that become clear whenContinue reading “TONIGHT: Zurbarán Centre-ARTES Seminar | Dr. Maite Barragán, Surrealism and Essentialism in Giménez Caballero’s Esencia de Verbena, 2 February 2022, 6.00 PM”
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