The Zurbarán Centre is looking forward to the first of four summer lectures at The Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland (in person and online).
The first lecture will be delivered on Friday 14 July, 11.30-12.30. Professor Andy Beresford (Durham University) will speak about “El Greco, St Jerome and the Corporeality of Ascetic Piety”.
The lecture has been organised by the Zurbarán Centre. It is free with an admission ticket to the Spanish Gallery.
If you would like to join via zoom, please register via Eventbrite.
ARTES would like to share a reminder of our up-coming visit to Bishop Auckland. ARTES is organising a long-overdue visit to The Spanish Gallery and Bishop Auckland Castle on Friday 18th August. The visit will coincide with a lecture being given on the Spanish Gallery’s sculpture collection by ARTES President Dr Holly Trusted, who has been working on the collection for the last year as a Zurbarán Centre Fellow. The day will also provide opportunities to discuss the collection with the driving force behind the entire Auckland Project, Jonathan Ruffer, and, the curator of the Spanish Gallery, MorlinEllis. Both of whom are longstanding ARTES members.
Proposed Schedule:
10.30am – Highlights tour of the Spanish Gallery
11.30am – Holly Trusted’s lecture on the sculpture collection
12.30pm – Further exploration of the Spanish Gallery, with Piers Baker Bates talking on the dialogue between Spanish and Italian art, which was the subject of his own Zurbarán Centre Fellowship in 2022.
1.30pm – Lunch
2.30pm – Zurbarán’s paintings of Jacob and his twelve sons, with Zurbarán Doctoral Scholar Richard Jacques, and the Sin Exhibition hosted in collaboration with the National Gallery, both at Auckland Castle.
4.00pm – Depart
For those who have yet to visit Bishop Auckland this will be an opportunity to explore one of the finest collections of Iberian art outside of Spain. For those who have already visited, it is envisaged that the talks by Holly Trusted, Piers Baker Bates and Richard Jacques will bring fresh perspectives to this remarkable resource.
Members will have to make their own travel arrangements to Bishop Auckland and pay for admission to the Gallery and Castle, although carers and ART Pass holders enter free of charge. Further information on Bishop Auckland, including opening times, ticket prices and travel information can be found here.
Would those interested in joining this event please let Richard Jacques (rpfjacques@gmail.com) as soon as possible.
ARTES is delighted to announce a new annual scholarship of £1000 to enable artists to travel to Spain, Portugal or Hispano/Lusophone regions. Priority will be given to artists whose own work engages creatively with the rich and distinctive visual cultures of Iberia and Latin America, and we are looking especially for candidates who have curiosity, think widely and are prepared to explore. Artists should be based in the UK and may be at any stage of their career, but preference may be given to candidates who can show a track record of producing artworks in response to similar opportunities.
The deadline for all applications is 30th April, and winners are invited to attend a special awards ceremony at the ARTES AGM in the summer. Please read the guidelines below.
Scholarship application guidelines.
Applications should be made in English as a single MS Word or PDF file and sent to artesscholarships@gmail.com. Applicants are requested to include ‘Travel Scholarship for Artists’ in the email subject, but should not expect acknowledgement of receipt.
All applications should include: a) a max 600-word explanation of the project and how it engages with Iberian or Latin American visual culture; b) a portfolio of 3-6 illustrative artworks, with brief explanatory text (these may be completed works made in response to similar opportunities, or sketches/drafts in relation to the planned travel); c) a max 150-word proposal as to how the fruits of the travel might be shared within 18 months of its completion (this might be a brief illustrated talk to ARTES, an informal demonstration of sketchbooks/photos, or any other means deemed appropriate); d) a short breakdown of how the money will be spent, together with details of any other funding received; e) a CV. Shortlisted artists will be invited to an interview and to show their portfolio in London.
Candidates may apply for any other scholarship or award offered by ARTES, but are unlikely to be successful in more than one category in any one year.
Applications are open to any artist based in the UK for more than 6 months in the year, other than ARTES Scholarship Committee members or their immediate families. Travel should be made within 9 months of the receipt of the scholarship.
Applications will be assessed according to the following criteria: quality of artworks, depth of engagement with Iberian/Latin American visual culture, track-record of producing artworks in response to similar opportunities, value for money, necessity of travel.
Successful scholarship winners are invited to attend a presentation at the ARTES AGM in the Summer. They are required to send an illustrated 600-word report on their travels to artesscholarships@gmail.com within 9 months of their travels, and invited to share the fruits of their travels within 18 months (see item 2, above).
The scholarships come with no institutional affiliation or support for exhibitions, and ARTES cannot take responsibility for the support or welfare of scholarship holders.
The decision of the Scholarship Committee shall be final. The Committee reserves the right to make no awards in cases where it deems that applications are not of satisfactory quality. ARTES accepts no legal responsibility to any applicant or third party arising from this notice, or the award or otherwise of a scholarship. The Scholarship Committee will not enter into correspondence with unsuccessful applicants regarding its decisions.
ARTES would like to remind all that today, June 15th, 2023, is the last day to register – both for online and in-person attendance – to the Emerging Researchers Symposium, at Durham University. This year’s theme is
MOVEMENTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE MAKING OF IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN ART AND VISUAL CULTURE
Join us as 20 speakers from 17 academic institutions explore the theme of movements and transformations in Iberian and Latin American art, architecture, and visual culture from the late middle ages to the present day. The topics are wide-ranging, from the physical movement of artists and artworks across different regions to the transformative power of art and architecture in the forging of identities. The papers address important questions relating to the circulation of art, art theory, and artefacts across time and space; changing constructs of identity (social, religious, political etc.); appropriations of traditions across different media and societies; artistic agency and innovation; and cultural translation. Opportunities for questions and answers will follow the presentations. The aim is to stimulate conversations and connections among emerging scholars engaged in the field ofIberian and Latin American art and visual culture.
The symposium begins with an opening address by José María Robles Fraga (Embassy of Spain) and features a keynote by Prof. Claudia Hopkins (Director of the Zurbarán Centre).
Monday 10th July – Visit at 11 am to see Young Picasso in Paris exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum.
Tuesday 11th July – Visit Metropolitan Museum of Art: 11.30 am to see Senior Curator Ronda Kasl (Latin American collections); and 2 pm David Pullin (Curator of the Juan de Pareja exhibition).
Wednesday 12th July – Visit at 10 am Brooklyn Museum of Art with Nancy Rosoff to see Latin American and other collections.
Thursday 13th July – Visit at 11 am The Hispanic Society of Art where Patrick Lenaghan will show us prints and photographs.
**Please note that the MET is closed on Wednesdays, while the Brooklyn Museum closes Mondays and Tuesdays.
We kindly ask that those interested in joining us, please let Dr. Holly Trusted (marjorie.h.trusted@gmail.com) know as soon as possible.
ARTES members will need to apply for an ESTA visa waiver, NOT a visa, which is much more expensive. You can find the link here.
Durham University, June 22nd and 23rd, 2023. Venue: Birley Room, Hatfield College, North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RQ
On 22 and 23 June 2023, the Zurbarán Centre at Durham University will host its third student-led symposium showcasing innovative doctoral and early career research in Iberian and Latin American art and visual cultures.
20 speakers from 17 academic institutions explore the theme of movements and transformations in Iberian and Latin American art, architecture, and visual culture from the late middle ages to the present day. The topics are wide-ranging, from the physical movement of artists and artworks across different regions to the transformative power of art and architecture in the forging of identities.
The papers address important questions relating to the circulation of art, art theory, and artefacts across time and space; changing constructs of identity (social, religious, political etc.); appropriations of traditions across different media and societies; artistic agency and innovation; and cultural translation. Opportunities for questions and answers will follow the presentations. The aims if to stimulate conversations and connections among emerging scholars engaged in the field of Iberian and Latin American art and visual culture.
The symposium begins with an opening address by José María Robles Fraga (Embassy of Spain) and features a keynote by Prof. Claudia Hopkins (Director of the Zurbarán Centre).
Organised by Durham University doctoral students, the symposium is held as a hybrid event with in-person attendance at Hatfield College at Durham University and virtual attendance via Zoom.
For those coming in person and able to spend more time in Durham, we will be arranging a visit to the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland on Wednesday, 21st June. Details will be provided closer to the event.
Booking is essential by 15 June 2023.Register to event here
Please see below for the programme of the Emerging Researchers Symposium 2023 or click here
SCHEDULE
Thursday 22 June 2023 09.30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:25 Welcome by Richard Jacques (PhD candidate, Zurbarán Centre, Durham University).
Opening Remarks by José María Robles Fraga, Minister-Counsellor for Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain.
10:20-12:30 Panel One – Art in Motion: Moving Artworks and Artistic Practices
10.25-10.45 Nora Guggenbühler (University of Zurich, Switzerland), The Travels of the Madonna di Trapani: Records of a Miraculous Image’s Journey through the Iberian World (in person).
10.45-11.05 Stephanie Bernard (Durham University, UK), Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Adoration of the Magi. Between Tradition and Innovation (in person).
11.05-11.25 Q&A
11.25-11.45 Rafael Japón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), Flemish Paintings by an Italian Painter: The Decoration of the Cloister of the Monastery of San Agustín in Lima (in person).
11.45-12.05 Annemarie Iker (Princeton University, USA), Secrecy in the Paris Paintings of Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931) and the Catalan Modernistes (in person).
12.05-12.30 Q&A
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:55 Panel Two – Art and the Transformation of Iberian Identities (Online)
1:30-1:50 Vega Torres Sastrús (Universitat de València, Spain), Transformations in and through the Arts. Catholicism and Visual Culture in the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936) (online).
1:50-2:10 Paola Setaro (Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy), From Painter of Friars to Painter of the Soul. The Gaze on Zurbarán in Francoist Spain (online).
2:10-2:30 Andrea Garcés Galarreta (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), From Equipo Realidad (1966) to Nueva Escuela Valenciana (circa 1980). De-sacralising Visual Practices on the Post-Francoist Spanish Mediterranean Coast (online).
2:30-2:55 Q&A
2:55-3:15 Break
3:15-4:40 Panel Three – Jewish Identity in the Hispanic World (In person)
3:15-3:35 Laura Feigen (The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK), Exodus and Expulsion: the Barcelona Haggadah as a Material Witness to Sephardi Migration 1391-1459 (In- person).
3:35-3:55 Jorge Oliaga Vázquez (University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain), The Old Testament in Seventeenth-Century Spanish and Novo-Hispanic Painting: Circulation of Models and Ideas in the Modern Age (in person).
3:55-4.15 Drew Erin Becker Lash (University of California, USA), Jacob and Intertextuality: Old Testament Images in Seventeenth-Century Spain (in person).
4:15-4.40 Q&A
4:40-5:00 Break
5:00-5.50 Keynote : Professor Claudia Hopkins (Director of the Zurbarán Centre, Durham University, UK), The Orient Within. Nostalgia for the Alhambra in Franco’s Spain around 1950 (in person).
Friday 23 June
10:00-12:10 Panel Four – Re-imagining the Artistic Cultures of the Past.
10.00-10.20 Montserrat Andrea Báez Hernández (University of Teramo, Italy) “Per metterlo in venerazione nel lontano paese…” Translation, Reception and Devotion of Roman Catacomb Martyrs in Latin America(1830-1880) (online).
10.20-10.40 Richard Jacques (Durham University, UK), Zurbarán’s Image of Saint Serapion and the Transformation of a Body in Pain (in person).
10.40-11.00 Q&A
11.00-11.20 Pablo Sánchez Izquierdo (Universitat de València, Spain), The Vernacular Moroccan Construction and the Spanish Modern Architecture Theories (online).
11.20-11.40 Élodie Baillot (Sorbonne Université, France), From One Century to Another: French Historiography and the Fortune of « Hispano-mauresque » Art (in person).
11.40-12.00 Q&A
12.00-1.00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:25 Panel Five – Expressions of Power: Art and Politics in the Americas
1:00-1:20 Alexis Salas (University of Arkansas, USA), “¡Dále Gas! [Give It Gas!]: Art and Oil in The Petrochemical Americas (in person).
1:20-1:40 Francesca Romana Gregori (University of Padua, Italy), “Antimonumenta” Artistic Practice in Feminist Mexico (online).
1:40-2:00 Alessandra Simões Paiva (Federal University of Southern Bahia, Brazil), Revolution from the Margins: The Decolonial Turn in the Brazilian Contemporary Art (in person).
2:00-2:25 Q&A
2:25-2:45 Break
2:45-4:05 Panel Six – Innovative Artforms and Artistic Agency
2:45-3:05 Ana Plaza Roig (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero AGENCIA I+D+i/UNTREF, Argentina), A Saint Prince in Northwest Argentina: The Patronage of Juan José Fernández Campero de Herrera (online).
3:05-3:25 Julieta Pestarino (4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics, Berlin, Germany), Botanical Portraits: Anatole Saderman Native Plants Photographs, between Science and Art (online).
3:25-3:45 Lariana Olguín (University of Puerto Rico), The Female Figure in the Spanish and Puerto Rican Satirical Press from 1860-1900 (online).
3:45-4:05 Q&A
Closing Remarks (Stephanie Bernard, Daniela Castro-Ruiz, Richard Jacques).
To Register for this event either in-person or online, please clickhere
Hosted and Organized by: Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. University College Cork Where and When: Cork, Friday 24 – Sunday 26th, 2023 Closing date for proposals: 30th June, 2023 (11:59pm GMT)
The aim of the Symposium is to bring together researchers whose work concerns the literature, history, culture, and visual arts of the Spanish Golden Age (1474 – 1681).
There will be no limitations in terms of topics as long as the presentation is related to the Spanish Golden Age.
The symposium will begin on Friday 24 November and will end at lunchtime on Sunday 26 November.
Submissions from faculty, postdoctoral faculty, independent scholars, graduate and postgraduate students will be welcomed.
Presentations must be 20 minutes maximum in length and must be delivered in English.
Individual Proposals must contain: 1) Name, Institutional affiliation, position or title and contact information of the presenter including e-mail address. 2) Paper title and abstract (200 – 300 words) 3) Brief (2 – 4 sentence) scholarly or professional biography of the presenter.
All proposals must be submitted through this e-form.
Closing date for proposals: 30th June, 2023 (11:59pm GMT)
Delivery Method: Our goal is to have a fully in-person Symposium this year. However, we will consider applications for online presentations under special circumstances (particularly for those scholars affiliated to transatlantic institutions). Please fill the appropriate area in the eForm if you wish to apply to this option.
Registration: Candidates will receive instructions on how to register for the Symposium, once their proposals have been accepted and various university funds are in. We are trying to keep consts down for our participants: for an informative purpose, last meeting’s early bird fees were approximately 70 Euros, thus participants may expect a similar fee this year.
Organizer: Dr. Silvia Arroyo, Lecturer Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies (SPLAS) University College Cork silvia.arroyo@ucc.ie
Visit the UCC Spanish Golden Age Symposium Webpage
Edited Volume Deadline: Thursday, June 29, 2023 Editors: Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Maria Vittoria Spissu, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
Images and texts praising a merciful Catholic Church and a triumphant Habsburg Empire have propagated a fictitious projection of reality. Views of ideal communities committed to sharing instrumental virtues clashed with potentially disruptive factors: a planetary empire, political enemies, religious Otherness, and competitive sovereignties. Whereas the social and moral models promoted were under the banner of peace, concord, and perfection, the promise of public happiness entailed a forced and centralizing pacification of conflicts. This volume aims to bring together images and texts that can recount these tensions and discontinuities.
What images and objects were favored to captivate souls, soothe disparities, and uplift consciences? What words and practices were applied to propose a sense of belonging, legitimize power and authority, or question the appropriateness of wars in Europe and beyond? The volume intends to analyze how religious orders, confraternities, political rulers, images, books, and objects articulated, challenged and exchanged views regarding society and morality throughout the Habsburg Monarchy and its spaces/networks of allegiance/interference. What images and texts united the Iberian worlds? What, in the proximity granted by a newly expanded circulation, was transformed, omitted, and over-emphasized, and why?
This volume seeks interdisciplinary contributions that explore the nuances of optimistic or critical representations of salvation and peace in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, the Netherlands, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. It further questions the roles of evangelizing projects, moralizing ideas, weaponizing emotions, and mobilizing cults in fostering and championing imposed hierarchies, a sense of belonging, and consensus strategies in the early modern Iberian Worlds.
Disciplines and approaches included: art history, literature, history, global studies, religious studies, book history, and print culture.
Contributions may concern:
· early modern illustrated printed books, such as spiritual and political treatises, being used to propagate ideas about new communities; · cults and iconographic models displayed in different places within the Iberian Worlds and promoting systems of inclusion and exclusion;
· images or texts used to legitimize social policies or delegitimize political and religious enemies; · visual and textual conceptualizations designed to offer targeted views of the community, the church, the nation, the empire, and the sovereignty; · patronage of works and actions linked to the creation of a sense of belonging to a social and religious group, affiliation, and allegiance;
· saints and heroes, appointed to defend the virtues recommended in the evangelizing programs and in the Iberian Habsburg Empire; · accounts or representations of missionary or military campaigns, festivals, processions, canonizations, miracles, and conversions, aimed at fostering fear, enthusiasm, reverence, and awe;
· surveys charting the preferences for specific models and the voyages of agents and works between the several centers of the Iberian Worlds (such as the Iberian Union, Habsburg Netherlands, Spanish Italy, Mediterranean Islands, New Spain, Peru, Brazil, the Caribbean, Canary Islands, African colonies, Goa, and the Philippines).
We invite proposals for contributions related to these issues from the aforementioned fields of early modern studies.
To submit a proposal for a chapter in this volume, please send a Word or PDF document to: Maria Vittoria Spissu [mariavittoria.spissu@unibo.it] & Marta Albalá Pelegrín [martaa@cpp.edu]
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Please ensure that the document includes:
· a tentative title for your chapter; · an abstract (250 words); · a short bio or two pages CV stating your name, contacts, affiliation, more relevant publications (enlightening your lines of research); · Five keywords (optional); · one or more images or a brief list of sources/printed books you want to write about (optional)
You will receive a response concerning the present selection by the end of July 2023. As far as length is concerned, we will ask you to write a chapter of around 8.000 words, including footnotes. All the authors will send their contributions for the volume by January 31, 2024.
Georges de La Tour, Saint Andrew,, oil on canvas, 62 x 50.5 cm, c. 1620
Deadline: June 20th, 2023
The Klesch Collection offers grants towards the yearly cost of university fees to graduate students who have been accepted into a full-time Art History MA or PhD course of study worldwide, beginning the next academic year. PhD students are welcome to apply for any year in their programme.Applications will be considered from students who will focus/are focusing their studies on European and British painting of the Renaissance and Baroque periods (c. 1400-1700).The deadline to apply is 20th of June 2023.
More details on how to apply can be found through the link here.
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