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)”
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CALL FOR PAPERS – Golden Age Research Symposium
Hosted and Organized by: Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. University College CorkWhere and When: Cork, Friday 24 – Sunday 26th, 2023Closing date for proposals: 30th June, 2023 (11:59pm GMT) The aim of the Symposium is to bring together researchers whose work concerns the literature, history, culture, and visual arts of the SpanishContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – Golden Age Research Symposium”
CALL FOR PAPERS – Ambivalent Harmonies: Representing Peace in Time of Conflict in the Early Modern Catholic Iberian Habsburg Worlds
Edited VolumeDeadline: Thursday, June 29, 2023Editors: Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, PomonaMaria Vittoria Spissu, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna Images and texts praising a merciful Catholic Church and a triumphant Habsburg Empire have propagated a fictitious projection of reality. Views of ideal communities committed to sharing instrumental virtues clashed with potentiallyContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – Ambivalent Harmonies: Representing Peace in Time of Conflict in the Early Modern Catholic Iberian Habsburg Worlds”
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: JSAH Roundtable – Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, 1400-1800
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”
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”
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