Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire The Portuguese sculptor has unveiled the latest of her installations: a monumental pair of 7-metre-tall candlesticks created from glass wine bottles, on display at the North entrance of the 19th-century country house of the Rothschild family at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. They have been bought for the Manor’s contemporary artContinue reading “Joana Vasconcelos: Waddesdon Manor”
Category Archives: Sculpture
CFP: Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800. Deadline: 8 May 2015
CAA 2016 session Washington, DC 3-6 February 2016 CFP: Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800 Sponsored by ASHAHS. Chair: Professor Ilenia Colón Mendoza: ilenia.colonmendoza@ucf.edu
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: Annual Lecture, 2015 : Tessa Garton, 28 April 2015
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) Annual Lecture 2015 Tuesday 28 April 2015 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art Tessa Garton (Professor Emerita, College of Charleston, South Carolina): Evidence Set in Stone? Twelfth-century Sculptors and Workshop Practices in Northern Palencia, Spain Open to all, free admission The northern regionContinue reading “Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: Annual Lecture, 2015 : Tessa Garton, 28 April 2015”
Exhibition & Symposium: Rogier van der Weyden: Museo del Prado, Madrid
Exhibition: Rogier van der Weyden (c.1399-1464) , Prado Museum, 24 March – 28 June 2015. Exhibition devoted particularly to the important influence of the fifteenth-century Flemish artist’s work in Spain and inspired by the recent completion of the conservation of his Escorial Crucifixion, which has been at the royal monastic palace since 1574. The exhibition,Continue reading “Exhibition & Symposium: Rogier van der Weyden: Museo del Prado, Madrid”
El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, Madrid
El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, exhibition, Palacio Real, Madrid, 4 December 2014 – 19 April 2015. Paintings and sculptures produced for the Spanish Court. Includes Ribera’s Don Juan Jose de Austria on Horseback; and the contemporary group portrait of the present royal family by Antonio Lopez, which apparently tookContinue reading “El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, Madrid”
The Fitzwilliam Museum in fundraising drive to acquire a Mater Dolorosa by Pedro de Mena
A sculpture by Pedro de Mena (b. Granada 1628 – d. Malaga 1688) of the Mater Dolorosa or Virgin of Sorrows has gone on display at The Fitzwilliam in Cambridge in a drive to help publicise the Museum’s funding-raising appeal for the acquisition of the work. Tim Knox Director of the Museum, who has kindly entertainedContinue reading “The Fitzwilliam Museum in fundraising drive to acquire a Mater Dolorosa by Pedro de Mena”
International Seminar on Polychromed Wooden Altarpieces in Southern Europe 2 & 3 October 2014/ Seminario internacional – retablos de escultura policromada en el sur de europa – 2 & 3 octubre de 2014
Programa ARTES member Dr Tomas Macsotay is on the organising committee for this event.
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