Vicente Carducho: teoría y práctica del dibujo en el Siglo de Oro, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, 29 May – 6 September 2015. Major exhibition of drawings, many never shown before, by Vicente Carducho (Florence 1576-1638 Madrid), a key artist at the Spanish court. Accompanied by contextualizing documents and prints by Carducho’s contemporaries drawnContinue reading “Exhibition: Vicente Carducho, Madrid, May – September 2016”
Category Archives: Spanish Art
New book on the Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory
The Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory was the last 18th century royal factory to be created (under Carlos III), yet was almost entirely forgotten. Read all about it in this new publication: Isadora Rose-de Viejo, La Real Fábrica de Papeles Pintados de Madrid (1786-1836): Arte, artesanía, industria. Madrid (Ediciones Cátedra-Grandes Temas núm. 64), 2015, 258 págs.,Continue reading “New book on the Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory”
First Durham-Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies, 9-10 July 2015
First Durham-Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies Primer Coloquio de Estudios Hispánicos Medievales y del Siglo de Oro (Universidades de Durham y de Northumbria) Registration is now open. Venue: Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne), Sutherland Building Date: 9-10 July 2015 Programme: 2015-06-FirstDurhamNorthumbria MedievalGoldenAgeProgramme
ARTES Visit to the Barber Institute & the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Mon 6 July 2015
ARTES Visit to Birmingham The Barber Institute of Art & The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) Monday 6 July 2015 11.00 – 16.30 pm This visit is at the kind invitation of Robert Wenley of the Barber Institute who will introduce the key Spanish works. Helen Hillyard, National Gallery Curatorial Trainee at the BMAG, willContinue reading “ARTES Visit to the Barber Institute & the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Mon 6 July 2015”
ARTES Visit – Exhibition – El Greco at the National Gallery – 18 June 2015
ARTES Members Private Visit The National Gallery London El Greco at the National Gallery Thursday 18 June 2015 8.50 am – 10.00 am (meeting at West Entrance) This visit is at the kind invitation of Curator Letizia Treves of the National Gallery will be talking about the El Greco display. She will be joined byContinue reading “ARTES Visit – Exhibition – El Greco at the National Gallery – 18 June 2015”
Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid
Exhibition: Views of Historic Monuments in Spanish Cities: The Romantic Painter Genaro Pérez Villaamil (Vistas monumentales de ciudades españolas. El pintor romántico Genaro Pérez Villaamil) Room 60 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 17 December 2014 – 6 September 2015 Curated by Javier Barón, this exhibition includes Villaamil’s large Diptych, formed from 42 individual scenes painted on tin-platesContinue reading “Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid”
Juan Muñoz, Milan
Exhibition: Juan Muñoz (1953-2001): Double Bind and Around Hangar Bicocca, Milan 9 April – 23 August 2015 Curated by Vicente Todoli, this is the first exhibition about the Spanish sculptor in Italy. It reconstructs his installation Double Bind, shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2001. Exhibition booklet available as a PDF via the exhibitionContinue reading “Juan Muñoz, Milan”
Itinerarios XXI, Fundación Botín, Santander, 28 March – 31 May 2015 Exhibition of works by nine Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American contemporary artists who are the recipients of the 21st Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grants for 2013-2014. Carles Congost (Gerona, 1970), Albert Corbí (Valencia, 1976), Patricia Esquivias (Caracas, 1979), Jon Mikel Euba (Vizcaya, 1967), RodrigoContinue reading
Equipo Crónica, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015
Equipo Crónica, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015 The most extensive retrospective to date of nearly 150 paintings, drawings, prints, posters and sculptures, covering Equipo Crónica’s entire creative career from 1964 when three Valencian artists, Rafael Solbes (1940-1981), Manuel Valdés (1942) and Juan Antonio Toledo (1940-1995) established the group, to 1981Continue reading “Equipo Crónica, Bilbao,10 February – 18 May 2015”
Helena Almeida and Lourdes Castro, London, 27 March – 22 May 2015
Helena Almeida, Inhabited Drawings/Desenhos habitados, showing at Richard Saltoun Gallery, Great Titfield Street, London W1W 6RV, 27 March – 22 May, along with work by her Madeira-born contemporary Lourdes Castro (b.1930). This is the first London show for Portuguese artist Helena Almeida, a student of the University of Fine Art, Lisbon, who has developed aContinue reading “Helena Almeida and Lourdes Castro, London, 27 March – 22 May 2015”
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