Join us on Zoom at 5:00 pm (UK) on 24 May for the Maius Workshop’s new event. To attend, please register here: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4NafoeRSTPyyQMwVII-TKw As in previous meetings, this workshop will feature short informal presentations followed by discussion. Questions will be accepted in English and Spanish. Our line-up includes: Isabel Escalera, ‘Creating a Feminine Identity ThroughContinue reading “Maius Workshop Meeting: Identity (Part 2), 24 May 2022, Online, 5pm (BST)”
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1492 | 1992 | 2022 – A Roundtable Rethinking the legacies of 1492, University of Oxford, 30 May 2022, 4-6pm
TODAY – Online Talk at The Wallace Collection | Meet the Expert: David Roberts’s Travels, Dr Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink and Professor Claudia Hopkins, 1pm BST
Date: Thursday 21 April 2022Time: 13.00-14.00 BSTLocation: Zoom and YouTube (Online) Speakers: Dr Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, Enriqueta Harris Frankfort Curatorial Fellow, The Wallace Collection, and Professor Claudia Hopkins, Director of Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art Description: Victorian artist-adventurer David Roberts (1796-1864) travelled extensively in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, creating countless images ofContinue reading “TODAY – Online Talk at The Wallace Collection | Meet the Expert: David Roberts’s Travels, Dr Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink and Professor Claudia Hopkins, 1pm BST”
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)”
TOMORROW: Zurbaran Centre-ARTES Seminar Series | Dr Juan Ricardo Rey-Márquez (Buenos Aires), ‘Simulated Nature: Colour and texture in the eighteenth-century botanical drawings of José Celestino Mutis and his circle’, 9 March, 6.00 PM (GMT)
We are pleased to announce the sixth seminar of our Research Seminar Series: 9 March, 6.00 PM (GMT), Dr Juan Ricardo Rey-Márquez (Buenos Aires), ‘Simulated Nature: Colour and texture in the eighteenth-century botanical drawings of José Celestino Mutis and his circle‘ Abstract: During the last quarter of the 18th century, the Spanish crown sponsored several expeditions throughoutContinue reading “TOMORROW: Zurbaran Centre-ARTES Seminar Series | Dr Juan Ricardo Rey-Márquez (Buenos Aires), ‘Simulated Nature: Colour and texture in the eighteenth-century botanical drawings of José Celestino Mutis and his circle’, 9 March, 6.00 PM (GMT)”
Zurbarán Centre-ARTES Online Seminar Series | Colonial Latin America and Materiality
Jointly organised by Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre, the ARTES Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group and the Instituto Cervantes, this live online seminar series provides an open forum for engaging with innovative research relating to the visual arts in the Hispanic world. The forthcoming three seminars focus on colonial Latin America and materiality. 9Continue reading “Zurbarán Centre-ARTES Online Seminar Series | Colonial Latin America and Materiality “
Call for Applicants: Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize, deadline 30th April 2025
ARTES invite submissions for the Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize for the best art-historical essay on a Hispanic theme. The deadline is 30th April 2025 To encourage emerging scholars that are based in the UK, ARTES, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, awards an annual essay medal to the author of the best art-historical essay or study on a Hispanic theme,Continue reading “Call for Applicants: Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize, deadline 30th April 2025”
Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art Online Conference: Romantic Spain, 24-25 February (pm)
The Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art will host an online conference on 24 and 25 February relating to the recent exhibition La España romántica: David Roberts y Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 7 Oct. 2021-16 Jan. 2022. The conference will further explore the prolific production of images ofContinue reading “Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art Online Conference: Romantic Spain, 24-25 February (pm)”
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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