Category Archives: Sculpture

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)”

Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor

Joana Vasconcelos: Lafite Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire 15 June – 23 October 2016 Major new addition to Waddesdon’s contemporary art collection, and part of its programme to work with contemporary artists. A pair of sculptures by Joana Vasconcelos has been installed on the North Front. In the form of a giant pair of candlesticks madeContinue reading “Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor”

Joaquím Gomis, Barcelona

Joaquím Gomis: Fundición Gimeno/Gimeno Foundry Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona 10 May – 18 September 2016 Photographic exhibition focussing on the development of Catalan sculpture from the 1900s to the 1940s, including a series of images taken by Gomis (1902-1991) of his friend Miró’s visits to the Barcelona-based Gimeno foundry between 1944 and 1949, where theContinue reading “Joaquím Gomis, Barcelona”