ARTES Collaboration with CEEH Publication: Martin Sorowka, British Travellers in Seville & their Drawings, 1715-1854 (2025)
ARTES is excited to announce the publication of Martin Sorowka’s book British Travellers in Seville & their Drawings, 1715-1854 (496 pp., with 345 colour illustrations) published by the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica in partnership with ARTES. The book offers a wide-ranging and accurate survey of British travellers in Seville from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Martin Sorowka holds an MSc in Architectural History from University College London (2004) and a PhD in Architecture from Seville University (2023, cum laude), the thesis of which formed the basis for his book. He is Associate Fellow of the Royal Historic Society. For further details about the book, please consult the CEEH website, where the book can be purchased at a discount until 10 October:
https://www.ceeh.es/en/publicacion/british-travellers-in-seville-their-drawings-1715-1854/
CEEH Publication: Mark McDonald, Pedro de Villafranca: Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV (2025)
ARTES is delighted to announce the publication of Mark McDonald’s book Pedro de Villafranca: Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV (440 pp., with 275 colour illustrations) published by the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Pedro de Villafranca (c. 1615–1684), the artist uniquely appointed as “king’s printmaker” during the reign of Philip IV.
Mark McDonald is in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and was formerly Curator of Old Master Prints and Spanish Paintings at the British Museum.
For further details about the book, please consult the CEEH website, where this publication can also be purchased: https://www.ceeh.es/publicacion/pedro-de-villafranca-printmaker-at-the-court-of-philip-iv/
Santiago Rusiñol, Letters from Andalucía. Art in Translation vol. 17 issue 1 (2025, 99 pages). Taylor and Francis online.
Translated from Spanish by Isabel Adey, Andreea Dumitrascu, with an introduction by Claudia Hopkins.
The volume makes available in English translation “Cartas de Andalucía”, a set of nine articles, originally published in Spanish between 1895 and 1896 by Santiago Rusiñol, one of Spain’s most significant fin-de-siècle artists. The texts reveal Rusiñol as a critic, historian, and travel writer, reflecting on Andalucía’s cultural heritage, traditions, and modernity.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17561310.2025.2505299
- Ramón Casas, Portrait of Santiago Rusiñol, c. 1900, drawing, 40.3 × 39.5 cm, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, given by the artist, 1909 © Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2025.
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