Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 May 2023 Histories of architecture and histories of construction continue to debate the relationship of design and craft. The biographical model, privileging the architect’s intellectual gifts and relations to patrons, has long emphasized the circulation of architectural knowledge through treatises, writings, and travel accounts, while histories of construction and theContinue reading “CALL FOR PROPOSALS: JSAH Roundtable – Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, 1400-1800”
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Ornament – Annual Conference, Lisbon, October 2023
Organized by: International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and DesignSubmission Deadline: 15 May, 2023Location: Lisbon, PortugalDates: 10 – 12 October, 2023 “Ornament is not only produced by criminals; it itself commits a crime,” So said architect and designer Adolf Loos in his 1910 lecture-turned-essay “Ornament and Crime,” where he described the effortContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS: Ornament – Annual Conference, Lisbon, October 2023”
CALL FOR PAPERS – En Femenino: Art and Women in the Middle Ages
XVI Jornadas Complutenses de Arte MedievalMadrid, October 19th – 20th, 2023Universidad Complutense de Madrid During the last decades, references to women’s participation in medieval artisticprocesses have ceased to be the story of an absence. Similarly, studies ofmedieval female iconography have transcended their mere representation aswives, mothers, lovers, sinners and sin-inducers, or nuns. Throughout theMiddle Ages,Continue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – En Femenino: Art and Women in the Middle Ages”
CALL FOR PAPERS: Movements and Transformations in the Making of Iberian and Latin American Art and Visual Cultures
Movements and Transformations in the Making of Iberian and Latin American Art and Visual CulturesEmerging Researchers SymposiumZurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art (Durham University, UK) 22-23 June 2023 Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art invites doctoral students and early career researchers to submit proposals for presentations at its annualContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS: Movements and Transformations in the Making of Iberian and Latin American Art and Visual Cultures”
2023 Jonathan Brown Award Winner – Romantic Spain: David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil
ARTES would like to extend a warm congratulations to Dr. Claudia Hopkins, an active member and the inaugural winner of the 2023 Jonathan Brown Award for her work Romantic Spain: David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil, a richly illustrated catalogue that accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Real Academia de Bellas ArtesContinue reading “2023 Jonathan Brown Award Winner – Romantic Spain: David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil”
New Publications Available Online
On Portraiture. Theory, Practice and Fiction. From Francisco de Holanda to Susan Sontag. (Published Conference Proceedings) Edited by Annemarie Jordan Gschwend | Maria João Gamito | Fernando António Baptista Pereira, 2022 Faculdade de Belas-Artes, University of Lisbon E-book available here The “Pangolin Fan” An Imperial Ivory Fan from Ceylon Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and Hugo MiguelContinue reading “New Publications Available Online”
AAH Conference CFP – Written In The Margins: Interpreting Early Modern Artistic Literature
Early modern artistic literature is a crucial source for the study of art between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Treatise writers such as Vasari, Pacheco, Baldinucci, and Palomino were crucial to the construction and future interpretation of art and their texts, most of them of hagiographical nature, provide insight into early modern artistic theory andContinue reading “AAH Conference CFP – Written In The Margins: Interpreting Early Modern Artistic Literature”
CFP – Activation. Staging Strategies of Mobile Artworks in the Early Modern Hispanic World 
International and interdisciplinary conferenceBibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome 16 – 17 February 2023Deadline: June 20, 2022 Conception and scientific organisation: Dr. Sven Jakstat, Dr. Johannes Gebhardt, Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky The temporary activation of mobile works of art and cult objects can be traced back to antiquity and continues toContinue reading “CFP – Activation. Staging Strategies of Mobile Artworks in the Early Modern Hispanic World ”
CFP – Hispanic Art in British Regional Collections: History, Display, Research Conference, hosted by the Zurbarán Centre, Durham University, 22–23 September 2022
Deadline: 27 May 2022 British regional galleries are extraordinarily rich in holdings of Hispanic art. County Durham alone has the largest concentration of Spanish artworks anywhere in the world outside Spain. In addition to Francisco de Zurbarán’s cycle of Jacob and his Twelve Sons at Auckland Castle, significant holdings can be found at The BowesContinue reading “CFP – Hispanic Art in British Regional Collections: History, Display, Research Conference, hosted by the Zurbarán Centre, Durham University, 22–23 September 2022”
Professor David Davies, 1937-2022
David Davies was an active member of ARTES since its inception. A Welshman from the Valleys, David was a middle weight champion boxer in his youth. He joined UCL in 1967 and is said to have put the History of Art Department on its feet. He was ‘a teacher enraptured by his subject matter’ (CharlesContinue reading “Professor David Davies, 1937-2022”
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