Modern Spanish Art at the Meadows Museum

Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX 9 October 2016 – 19 January 2017   Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo is the first exhibition in America to present a comprehensive survey of Modern Art in Spain from the Belle Époque through the Kennedy years. TheContinue reading “Modern Spanish Art at the Meadows Museum”

CALL FOR PAPERS – FLANDES BY SUBSTITUTION: COPIES OF FLEMISH MASTERS IN THE HISPANIC WORLD (1500-1700) – KIK-IRPA, BRUSSELS – 9-10 FEB 2017

  Michiel Cocxie after Hubert and Jan van Eyck, The Adoration of the Lamb, 1558, oil on panel, 133 × 236 cm, signed : “MICHAEL DE COXIE ME FECIT ANNO 1558”, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie CALL FOR PAPERS FLANDES BY SUBSTITUTION: COPIES OF FLEMISH MASTERS IN THE HISPANIC WORLD (1500-1700) Art History Seminar 18 of the Royal InstituteContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – FLANDES BY SUBSTITUTION: COPIES OF FLEMISH MASTERS IN THE HISPANIC WORLD (1500-1700) – KIK-IRPA, BRUSSELS – 9-10 FEB 2017”

Exhibition: Ceán Bermúdez, Art Historian & Collector

Ceán Bermúdez (1749-1829), historiador de arte y coleccionista ilustrado Biblioteca Nacional de España in association with the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica Madrid, 20 May – 11 September Survey of the life and works of this Enlightenment art historian and collector, uniting158 items mainly drawn from the collections of the BNE, but also including paintings,Continue reading “Exhibition: Ceán Bermúdez, Art Historian & Collector”

Barcelona: Ramon Casas

Ramón Casas Círculo del Liceo de Barcelona Barcelona, 10 May – 20 July 2016   Exhibition of nearly 100 works marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Casas (1866-1932). Curated by Isabel Coll Mirabent, a specialist in the fin de siècle period. Focuses on the artist’s lover and muse, Julia Peraire (b.1888), the lottery-ticketContinue reading “Barcelona: Ramon Casas”

Sorolla in Munich

Joaquin Sorolla: Spain’s Master of Light Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich 4 March – 3 July 2016 A comprehensive retrospective of the Spanish artist includes 120 works from the artist’s entire career, from his early paintings in Paris, in which the influence of the French Impressionists is clearly evident, through to the distinctive pictures that reflectContinue reading “Sorolla in Munich”

Gonzalo Chillida (San Sebastián)

Gonzalo Chillida Kuba-Kutxa Fondazioa San Sebastián 22 April – 3 July 2016 First major retrospective of the San Sebastián-born artist displaying some 130 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from five decades of his career: Landscapes and still lives through his abstract images of the 1950s and 1960s, culminating with his sea and cloudscapes.

CLosing soon: Salvador Dalí at the Menil (Houston)

The Secret of the Hanging Egg: Salvador Dalí at the Menil Menil Collection, Houston, Texas Exhibition  closes 19 June 2016 The Menil has borrowed from the Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida Dalí’s Eggs on a Plate without the Plate and displayed it alongside its own Surrealist collection including artists with whom he collaborated in Paris.Continue reading “CLosing soon: Salvador Dalí at the Menil (Houston)”

The Chapel of Contador Saldaña at Santa Clara de Tordesillas

Lecture The Chapel of Contador Saldaña at Santa Clara de Tordesillas: New Proposals about its Original Appearance and Role in the Fashioning of Identity by an Early Fifteenth-Century Converso Nicola Jennings, ARTES member and Visiting Lecturer, Courtauld Institute Wednesday, 15 June 2016, 5:30-6:30PM Courtauld Institute, London The paper proposes revisions to the chronology of theContinue reading “The Chapel of Contador Saldaña at Santa Clara de Tordesillas”

CfP: The Matter of Sculpture in Southern Italy, Spain and the New World

Renaissance Society of America (RSA) 2017 Conference Chicago, 30 March – 1 April 2017 Call for Papers: The Matter of Sculpture in Southern Italy, Spain and the New World The history of sculpture has, particularly with regard to the early modern period, been dominated by studies on marble and bronze, materials that are at theContinue reading “CfP: The Matter of Sculpture in Southern Italy, Spain and the New World”