Category Archives: Portugal

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”

Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal 2020

ARTES is delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal, awarded with the generous support of the Office of Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London.  This year’s prize is awarded to Dr Simon Park, an early career scholar at the University of Oxford. Simon’s essay, ‘ChasingContinue reading “Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal 2020”

Conference: La seda en la historia de España y Portugal (València)

Silk in the History of Spain and Portugal Facultat de Geografia i Història of the Universitat de Valencia 26-28 October 2016 Congreso internacional sobre la influencia del cultivo de la morera y la manufactura de la seda en la historia de España y Portugal y su inserción en las rutas internacionales de la seda. ProgramContinue reading “Conference: La seda en la historia de España y Portugal (València)”

Lecture: The Ceramics Collection of the Portuguese Royal Family (Wallace Collection, London)

Lecture The Ceramics Collection of the Portuguese Royal Family: the King Consort’s Collection By Maria de Jesus Monge, Director of the Museu-Biblioteca da Casa de Bragança, Vila Viço Wallace Collection, London Monday, 28 September, 5:30 – 6:30PM Admission free.

Exhibition: Josefa de Óbidos, Lisbon

Josefa de Óbidos e a invenção do barroco português; Josefa de Óbidos and the invention of the Portuguese Baroque Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga 16 May – 6 September 2015 Around 130 items, including a selection of the artist’s paintings and other supporting artworks, are on display. Loans from public and private collections in Portugal, Spain, etc.Continue reading “Exhibition: Josefa de Óbidos, Lisbon”

CFP: Paula Rego (Lisbon, 3-4 December 2015)

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference “Caught in the Act: The (Literary) Imagiconography of Paula Rego” 3-4 December 2015 Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon, Portugal On the occasion of Paula Rego’s 80th birthday, the Department of Languages, Cultures and Cultures, the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), ofContinue reading “CFP: Paula Rego (Lisbon, 3-4 December 2015)”

CFP: El Retablo en el espacio Iberoamericano (Lisbon, 26-27 Nov 2015)

CFP: El Retablo en el espacio Iberoamericano Lisbon, Portugal, November 26 – 27, 2015 Deadline: Apr 30, 2015 El Instituto de História da Arte de la Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa organiza el I Simpósio de Historia del Arte – El Retabulo en el espacio Iberoamericano: Forma, función e iconografía, queContinue reading “CFP: El Retablo en el espacio Iberoamericano (Lisbon, 26-27 Nov 2015)”