ARTES-CEEH Scholarship for Spanish PhDs, Report: Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón, University of Murcia (FULL REPORT) Portraiture, Gender, and the Construction of the Image of Power in the Formation of the Royal Collection and the Prado Museum This project studies the formation of the Spanish and British royal collections with a special emphasis on portraiture andContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Scholarships for Spanish PhDs, 2023: Scholarship Report”
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2023 ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Reports
ARTES is delighted to share the ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Reports of the 2023 recipients. As always, these scholarships are generously supported with the aid of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica). Further information on our annual scholarships can be found here. 2023 ARTES-CEEH UK PhD Scholarship Report ARTES-CEEH UK PhD Scholarship Report | Daniela Castro Ruiz,Continue reading “2023 ARTES-CEEH Scholarship Reports”
ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report | Helena Santidrián Mas, Courtauld Institute of Art
ARTES is delighted to share Helena Santidrián Mas’s report of her research trip, funded by the ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship. In the months of March and April 2023, thanks to the ARTES/CEEH Travel Scholarship, Iwas able to visit some of the key sites for my postgraduate dissertation titled “An Annunciationfrom the Museo de la Catedral deContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report | Helena Santidrián Mas, Courtauld Institute of Art”
ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report | Philip Muijtjens, King’s College – University of Cambridge
ARTES is delighted to share Philip Muijtjen’s report of his research trip, funded by the CEEH/ARTES Travel Scholarship. The ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship enabled me to travel to the beautiful town of Burgos in May 2023 to carry out extensive archival research on the Spanish bishop and legal scholar Juan Díaz de Coca (d.1477). Juan deContinue reading “ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarship Report | Philip Muijtjens, King’s College – University of Cambridge”
CONVERSATION: Spanish Polychromed Sculptures and their Relationship to Easel Paintings
When: January 31st, 2024. 6:00 – 7:00pm (GMT)Where: Zoom Zoom details: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/s/91739926026Meeting ID: 917 3992 6026Passcode: 645194 Please join us as Dr. Xavier Bray and Dr. Holly Trusted will be discussing Spanish polychromed sculptures, how they relate to easel paintings, some of the techniques involved, attitudes to such sculptures outside Spain, and why they areContinue reading “CONVERSATION: Spanish Polychromed Sculptures and their Relationship to Easel Paintings”
Becoming Actaeon: Titian and the Conceptual Gaze in Diego Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas
By Isabelle Kent, PhD candidate at University of Cambridge and winner of the ARTES 2023 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize. When: Monday, 4th December 2023 18:00GMTWhere: Instituto Cervantes London (15-19 Devereux Court London WC2R 3JJ) and zoom In the background of Diego Velázquez’s enigmatic masterpiece, Las Hilanderas, the artist summarises with a few bravura strokes aContinue reading “Becoming Actaeon: Titian and the Conceptual Gaze in Diego Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas”
Guillaume Kientz (Hispanic Society of America), “Murillo. From Heaven to Earth”.
When: Tuesday, 24 October at 18.00 (GMT), on zoom The talk will discuss the research for the exhibition Murillo. From Heaven to Earth curated by Guillaume Kientz at the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth, 18 September 2022 – 29 January 2023. Inspired by the Kimbell’s mysterious Four Figures on a Step, the exhibition focused on Murillo’s earthly depictions of secular subjects andContinue reading “Guillaume Kientz (Hispanic Society of America), “Murillo. From Heaven to Earth”. “
Inaugural Session of Permanent Seminar: Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization
Date: Thursday, September 21st, 2023 (17:00 CET) The permanent Seminar “Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization” resumes its activities the coming Thursday, September 21st, starting with an inaugural session focused on the figure of J.H. Elliott, titled “J.H Elliott y su Mundo / J. H. Elliott and his World”. In this session, Dr. Richard L. KaganContinue reading “Inaugural Session of Permanent Seminar: Iberian Worlds and Early Globalization”
REMINDER: Upcoming ARTES visit TO BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNTY DURHAM – 18th August, 2023
Date: 18th August, 2023 ARTES would like to share a reminder of our upcoming visit to Bishop Auckland. ARTES is organising a long-overdue visit to The Spanish Gallery and Bishop Auckland Castle on Friday 18th August. The visit will coincide with a lecture being given on the Spanish Gallery’s sculpture collection by ARTES President Dr Holly Trusted, who has been workingContinue reading “REMINDER: Upcoming ARTES visit TO BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNTY DURHAM – 18th August, 2023”
Zurbarán Center Summer Lectures 2023
Date: July 14th, 2023. Time: 11:30am to 12:30pm The Zurbarán Centre is looking forward to the first of four summer lectures at The Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland (in person and online). The first lecture will be delivered on Friday 14 July, 11.30-12.30. Professor Andy Beresford (Durham University) will speak about “El Greco, St Jerome and theContinue reading “Zurbarán Center Summer Lectures 2023”
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