When: January 31st, 2024. 6:00 – 7:00pm (GMT)Where: Zoom Zoom details: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/s/91739926026Meeting ID: 917 3992 6026Passcode: 645194 Please join us as Dr. Xavier Bray and Dr. Holly Trusted will be discussing Spanish polychromed sculptures, how they relate to easel paintings, some of the techniques involved, attitudes to such sculptures outside Spain, and why they areContinue reading “CONVERSATION: Spanish Polychromed Sculptures and their Relationship to Easel Paintings”
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Production, Transmission & Interpretation
An interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture, History and Archaeology Deadline: December 31st, 2023All abstracts should be sent as pdf attachments to hist592@york.ac.uk Conference dates: 14th and 15th March, 2024 With keynote addresses by Professor Robert Hillenbrand and Professor Marcus Milwright Islamic time begins with the Hijra; the integral responsibilities of every Muslim include theContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS: Production, Transmission & Interpretation”
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”
Guillaume Kientz (Hispanic Society of America), “Murillo. From Heaven to Earth”.
When: Tuesday, 24 October at 18.00 (GMT), on zoom The 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’s earthly depictions of secular subjects andContinue reading “Guillaume Kientz (Hispanic Society of America), “Murillo. From Heaven to Earth”. “
Inaugural Session of Permanent Seminar: Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization
Date: Thursday, September 21st, 2023 (17:00 CET) The permanent Seminar “Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization” resumes its activities the coming Thursday, September 21st, starting with an inaugural session focused on the figure of J.H. Elliott, titled “J.H Elliott y su Mundo / J. H. Elliott and his World”. In this session, Dr. Richard L. KaganContinue reading “Inaugural Session of Permanent Seminar: Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization”
CALL FOR PAPERS – Art in Times of War and Peace: Legacies of Early Modern Loot and Repair (Bibliotheca Hertziana)
Rome, Bibliotheca Herztiana – Max Planck Institute for Art History 8–10 May 2024 Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023 A category of objects that exists entirely as a function of violence, the term ‘loot’ describes a relationship of possession, if not more specifically of dispossession. Neither an historically nor materially specific typology of artifacts, loot is instead primarilyContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – Art in Times of War and Peace: Legacies of Early Modern Loot and Repair (Bibliotheca Hertziana)”
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”
CALL FOR PAPERS – Moving Ideas in the Iberian Worlds (RSA Chicago, 2024)
Renaissance Society of America – Chicago, 2024 (March 21 – 23rd) Organizers: Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.Maria Vittoria Spissu, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna Submission Deadline: August 7th, 2023. In the Early Modern period, the transmission of ideas and the movement of people, artworks, and commodities embraced diverse cultural worldsContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – Moving Ideas in the Iberian Worlds (RSA Chicago, 2024)”
CALL FOR PAPERS – The Construction of Identities from Material Culture in the Early Modern World (RSA 2024, Panel)
Renaissance Society of America – Chicago, 2024 (March 21 – 23rd) Panel Organizers: Rosario Nava Román. Instituto Mora (CONACYT), Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura yGrabado “la Esmeralda”Vanessa A. Portugal. University of Lincoln Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2023. 5pm (BST) Considering the range of asymmetrical encounters (Subrahmanyam, 2012) that particularsexercised during the early modern world, thisContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – The Construction of Identities from Material Culture in the Early Modern World (RSA 2024, Panel)”
Zurbarán Center Summer Lectures 2023
Date: July 14th, 2023. Time: 11:30am to 12:30pm The Zurbarán Centre is looking forward to the first of four summer lectures at The Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland (in person and online). The first lecture will be delivered on Friday 14 July, 11.30-12.30. Professor Andy Beresford (Durham University) will speak about “El Greco, St Jerome and theContinue reading “Zurbarán Center Summer Lectures 2023”
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