Luisa Roldán – Online Discussion and Book Launch – Holly Trusted explores, with author Catherine Hall-van den Elsen, the life and works of this celebrated sculptor of the Spanish Golden Age, 20 October 2021

Luisa Roldán, The Entombment of Christ, 1700–1701, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lund Humphries is delighted to celebrate the launch of Luisa Roldán, a new monograph by Catherine Hall-van den Elsen, co-published with Getty Publications. This beautifully illustrated book presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldán (1652–1706).

To celebrate the new publication, author Catherine Hall-van den Elsen will be joined in conversation by sculpture historian Holly Trusted. They will introduce Roldán within a wider historical and social context, exploring her development as a sculptor from her early days in Andalucía to her later works in Madrid.

They will discuss the complexities of her oeuvre and reflect on the challenges she faced as a woman sculptor in early modern Spain.

Online event

20 October 2021

12pm noon UK time (BST)

For more information and to register for the event, please click here.

Representing hidden histories on stage and screen:  Second Workshop with The CATALINA Film Team (28 September)

Untold Arts, in collaboration with the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, at the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London, would like to invite you to the second workshop on interpreting diverse hidden histories for the stage and screen. 

When: Next Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 6pm-8pm

Venue: Birkbeck, School of Arts, The Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London

Download a map of our location in Bloomsbury, central London

To register, please click here

Workshop 2

This second workshop involves interactive activities led by Fran Marshall from HistoryRiot with the support of Nadia Nadif, actor and producer of The Catalina Film.  BSL Interpretation will be provided by Erin and Rob.

Fran, our guest facilitator, will aim to connect people with the UK’s past, to inspire audiences to feel a fresh sense of identity with the place in which they live and the historical sites they visit. These activities will allow you to explore your own diverse histories and how to present them through the creative arts. 

Please, see details ahead of the workshop in https://historyriot.co.uk/

Postgraduate students are especially welcome

Contact name: Carmen Fracchia

EXHIBITION: Murillo’s The Prodigal Son and the art of narrative in Andalusian Baroque painting, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 9/21/2021 – 1/23/2022

The Prodigal Son Feasting (detail), Ca.1660. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Oil on canvas. Photo ©️ National Gallery of Ireland

Until 23 January 2022 in Room C of the Jerónimos Building and with the collaboration of the Comunidad de Madrid, the Museo Nacional del Prado is exhibiting three important narrative series produced for private clients in Andalusia in the mid-17th century: the two on the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Story of Joseph by Murillo and Antonio del Castillo, both of which have survived complete and are now in the National Gallery of Dublin and the Museo del Prado, respectively; and the series on the Life of Saint Ambrose by Juan de Valdés Leal.
 
The exhibition also features other paintings which originally belonged to series of this type that were split up and dispersed over time. Through these works visitors to the exhibition will be able to appreciate both the importance of serial creations in Andalusian painting of the period and the role played in the development of the latter by private collectors and patrons.
 
33 works from the Museo Nacional del Prado, the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and institutions such as the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla and the Biblioteca Nacional de España document the high levels of artistic merit achieved by the artists who cultivated this typology.

To buy tickets, and for more information on the exhibition , please click here.

Text excerpted from the Museo del Prado Communications Department

Sotheby’s online: Old Master & British Works on Paper including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes, closing 23 September 2021

Sotheby’s, New Bond Street, are presently offering via an on-line sale a selection of Old Master drawings from the collection of the Chilean architect and founder of The Apelles Collection, Carlos Alberto Cruz. Lots begin closing at 2pm BST on September 23rd, 2021.

Please follow this link to see the works for sale and for additional information: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/old-master-british-works-on-paper-including-works-from-the-collections-of-carlos-alberto-cruz-and-the-late-timothy-clowes

Among the selection are 17 lots by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish artists including Francisco Herrera the Younger (1612 – 1685), Jeronimo de Bobadilla (1630-1709), Antonio del Castillo (1616-1668) and Pablo de Céspedes (1538-1608). Included among Cruz’s collection are drawings by the circle or followers of Murillo and his master Antonio del Castillo which were once in the collection of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878).

Representing hidden histories on stage and screen: Two Workshops with The CATALINA Film Team  21 & 28 September 2021, 6pm-8pm 

Untold Arts, in collaboration with the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), at the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London, would like to invite you to two workshops on interpreting diverse hidden histories for the stage and screen.

Christoph Weiditz, Morisco Women in Granada (1529)

Untold Arts, founded by Actor/Producer Nadia Nadif and Historian/Writer Lauren Johnston, brings true unknown stories to life, championing global majority and female characters through the creative arts, educational resources and outreach workshops.

Workshop 1

Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 6pm-8pm, online.

The first workshop aims to provide you with insights into the process of how the Untold Arts team translates hidden histories into theatre and film and introduce you to our latest project, about an Arab woman privy to some of the Tudor royals’ greatest secrets. This will include talks and discussions with the creative team (from the UK & USA) including:

6.00pm: Introduction – Professor Luciana Martins            

6.05pm: The Catalina Project  – Nadia Nadif (Actress and Producer)

6.35pm: The World of Catalina – Professor Carmen Fracchia

6.55pm: How the history has informed our process as film makers – Fawaz Al-Matrouk (Director), Leah Curtis (Music Composer)

7.45pm: Preparing Workshop 2 – Nadia Nadif                        

Workshop 2

Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 6pm-8pm, venue TBA. The second workshop will involve interactive activities from guest facilitator Frances Marshall from HistoryRiot who aims to connect people with the UK’s past, to inspire audiences to feel a fresh sense of identity with the place in which they live and the historical sites they visit. These activities will allow you to explore your own diverse histories and how to present them through the creative arts.

Postgraduate students are especially welcome

To register, please click here.

TONIGHT (online and in-person): Professor Simon Thurley CBE, ‘The Spanish Culture of Charles I’s Court’, Museum of London, 6-7 PM

In 1623, Charles I (as heir to the throne) made a secret and hazardous trip to Madrid to win the hand of a Spanish princess. For eight months he was the guest of the Spanish king, Philip IV, living in the Alcazar of Madrid. The opportunities to study art, architecture and court ceremonial made a profound impact on the 23-year-old Charles, and it influenced his own taste when two years later he inherited the thrones of England and Scotland.

This event will take place both online and in person, at the Museum of London, on September 15th from 6:00 – 7:00 PM.

Please click here for more information and to register for either online or in-person tickets

TONIGHT: Zoom event: ‘Zurburan and The Boys’, a Conversation at THERRC with David Pott on the connections between Faith and Art

“The Boys” is an affectionate term sometimes used to describe the outstanding portraits of Jacob and his twelve sons by the Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán, housed at Auckland Castle in Bishop Auckland. Join local author David Pott who will be discussing his book Listening to the Boys: Meditations on Francisco de Zurbaran’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons, and answering questions.

Please click here to register for the event and receive joining details

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Exhibition: Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith, The Met Cloisters, 30 August 2021 – 30 January 2022

Communities of Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side in Spain for centuries, creating vibrant artistic traditions that often intersected. For the first time since its inauguration at The Met Cloisters in 1961, the Fuentidueña Chapel gallery, which typically focuses on the Christian tradition, will present a group of works that testify to the diversity of Spanish medieval art. By telling a more nuanced story in this space, the exhibition will demonstrate the ease with which objects and artistic ideas transcended differences of belief. Placed in dialogue with each other, the silk textiles, ivory carvings, illuminated manuscripts, frescoes, and monumental sculptures featured in the show will reveal a dynamic, interconnected past that often mirrors the present.

Image: Pyxis, c. 950-975, Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain, The Cloisters Collection, 1970.324.5

Text: Abridged from the The Met Cloisters (click here for more information on the exhibition)

The Met is hosting two online events in conjunction with the exhibition:

22 September: Met Escapes—Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith

23 September: Art History Study Group—Spain, 1000–1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith

The exhibition is located in the Fuentidueña Chapel gallery, whose 12th-century apse was moved from the church of San Martín in Fuentidueña, Spain, and reconstructed at the Cloisters. Please click here for a documentary on the apse and its journey from Castile to New York.