ARTES is delighted to announce the winners of our annual travel scholarships, generously supported by CEEH. Philip Muijtjens, Cambridge University – £750 for travel to Burgos A Spanish Patron in Fifteenth-Century Rome and Burgos: Bishop Juan Díaz de Coca (d.1477) Born into a family of conversos, Juan Díaz de Coca (1389-1477) started his ecclesiastical careerContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarships 2023!”
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ARTES-CEEH Scholars 2023!
ARTES is delighted to announce our scholars for 2023, with thanks as always to CEEH for their generous support. Further information on our annual scholarships is available here. Scholarship for students studying for a PhD in the UK: Daniela Castro Ruiz, Durham University The Bestiario de Don Juan de Austria in the Context of Fifteenth-Continue reading “ARTES-CEEH Scholars 2023!”
ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report | Irini Picolou, Durham University
ARTES is delighted to share Irini Picolou’s report of her research trip, funded by the CEEH/ARTES Travel Scholarship. We are currently accepting applications for 2023, please click here for details (deadline 31st January). The generous scholarship provided by ARTES and the CEEH gave me the opportunity to conduct an exciting and productive research trip. MyContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report | Irini Picolou, Durham University”
ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report: Eva Sierra
Thanks to the generous support of the ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship, I was able to carry out some research at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, Spain, in June 2021. The topic of my dissertation, The Archangel Saint Michael in the Fifteenth-century Crown of Aragon: a different perspective, gives an idea of the period I needed toContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report: Eva Sierra”
ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Report: Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández
In 2021 I was awarded an ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship for the project “My darling, fly thou: New iconography of the Song of Songs in Iberian medieval sculpture”. Unfortunately, Covid forced me to delay my research and I was unable to pursue my work until this Autumn. In fact, I am currently at the British LibraryContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Report: Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández”
ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Report, 2022: Nausheen Hoosein
With the generosity of the ARTES-CEEH PhD Scholarship, I have made significant progress on my research, writing, as well as additional skills training. I am a second-year PhD student in the History of Art department at the University of York working under the supervision of Dr Richard McClary. My thesis is titled ‘From Umayyad Madinat al-ZahraContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Report, 2022: Nausheen Hoosein”
ARTES/CEEH Scholarship Report: Carter Lyon
With the generous support of the ARTES-CEEH PhD Scholarship, I conducted a research trip to Madrid in September 2022. This informed my work on the methods and materials of the Spanish scholar-artist Vicente Carducho (c. 1576-1638), whose Self Portrait (c.1633-38) and treatise Diálogos de la Pintura (1633) are at the core of my PhD thesis.Continue reading “ARTES/CEEH Scholarship Report: Carter Lyon”
ARTES CEEH Travel Scholarship Report: Daen Palma Huse
The ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship supported my travels to Spain in July 2021. I conducted research in three different cities – Madrid, Seville and Vitoria-Gasteiz. This primary research directly benefited the preparation of my MA thesis, and progressed into further research at PhD level at the UCL History of Art department starting in 2022. My initialContinue reading “ARTES CEEH Travel Scholarship Report: Daen Palma Huse”
Zurbarán Centre Spanish Gallery Collection Research Fellowships, 1 October 2022 and 30 June 2023
Deadline: 20 June 2022 The Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art at Durham University is seeking to recruit two research fellows to undertake research into the collection of the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland, starting on 1 October 2022 and 30 June 2023. The two fellowships are affiliated with the Zurbarán Centre andContinue reading “Zurbarán Centre Spanish Gallery Collection Research Fellowships, 1 October 2022 and 30 June 2023”
2022 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize Winners
ARTES is delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize. With exceptionally strong submissions, this year we awarded the prize plus two runner-ups! Winner of the 2022 Juan Facundo Riaño Prize 2022: Patricia Manzano Rodríguez, PhD candidate, University of Durham The Upper half of Las Meninas Diego Velázquez’s Las MeninasContinue reading “2022 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize Winners”