ARTES is excited to plan an enthralling short trip to Spain in early December to visit two major exhibitions: One monographic shjow at the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid, dedicated to the Baroque Sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), and the other to a major show on sculpture at the Museo Nacional del Prado: Hand inContinue reading “Upcoming ARTES Trip: Visit to Valladolid and Madrid”
Category Archives: Sculpture
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”
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”
ARTES-CEEH Travel Scholarships 2023!
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!”
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”
A Spanish female artist of the early modern period – ‘Finding Luisa Roldán: A North American road trip’, a blog post by Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen
‘The Spanish sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652–1706) was recognised in her lifetime as an artist of considerable talent. Luisa was born in Seville, the daughter of Pedro Roldán, a prominent sculptor.’ Please click here to read the rest of Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen’s blog post on Art Herstory to find more on Luisa Roldán’s worksContinue reading “A Spanish female artist of the early modern period – ‘Finding Luisa Roldán: A North American road trip’, a blog post by Dr. Cathy Hall-van den Elsen”
A suspected medieval sculpture of the Virgin discovered in a Galician river, near Santiago de Compostela
On June 5th, fisherman Fernando Brey tripped over a moss covered stone in the Sar river in Galicia when he was struck by its unusual shape. Indeed, this was not an ordinary riverbed rock. He had literally stumbled upon a sculpture of the Virgin and Child, whose faces are now missing, with two worn angelsContinue reading “A suspected medieval sculpture of the Virgin discovered in a Galician river, near Santiago de Compostela”
Luis Salvador Carmona (Detroit)
The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum has acquired a Virgin and Child by Luis Salvador Carmona (1709-1767). The work was created in response to a commission of c.1750-51 “from the brotherhood attached to the Royal Tapestry Factory, Madrid, […] for their chapel.”
Madrid: Master Mateo at the Prado
Master Mateo and his work for the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela Madrid, Museo del Prado, Villanueva Building The exhibition brings together an exceptional group of fourteen works that were removed in the past from their original location (the west façade and choir of the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela) and are now housed inContinue reading “Madrid: Master Mateo at the Prado”
Sculpture in the City (Londo)
Sculpture in the City City of London July 2016 to May 2017 15 large-scale public sculptures by artists including the Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa’s Laura (2013), one of his female portraits symbolising the state of dreaming and aspiration (shown near ‘the Gherkin’); and four works from Peruvian-born Lizi Sánchez’s abstract Cadenetas series (2016) of smallContinue reading “Sculpture in the City (Londo)”
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