ARTES Private View & AGM – Tues 5 July 2016 – Apsley House London
Lecture – Arts & Sciences in Early Islamic Spain – Courtauld Institute – Wed 15 June 2016 – 3.30 pm
The Arts & Science in Early Islamic Spain
- Dr Glaire D. Anderson: University of North Carolina
Organised by
- Dr Sussan Babaie: The Courtauld Institute of Art
Open to all, free admission
There is a symbiotic relationship between design, art and visual culture, and the exact sciences, which is attested in early scientific objects from al-Andalus and in medieval Arabic texts. In this talk I explore the objects, spaces, and figures that illuminate this relationship, focusing on ‘Abbas Ibn Firnas (d. ca. 887), the celebrated polymath of the Cordoban Umayyad court, and on al-Andalus and its contemporaries between the 9th-11th centuries.
Glaire D. Anderson is a historian of Islamic art of the caliphal period, with a focus on the art and court culture of Umayyad Cordoba. She is the author of The Villa in Early Islamic Iberia (Ashgate, 2013), co-editor with Mariam Rosser-Owen of Revisiting al-Andalus (Brill, 2007), and recent articles on the Islamic west in architectural history, women and the arts of Cordoba, and material culture and caliphal sovereignty.
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 reflect the maturing of his art into his own style. The exhibition focuses in particular on the large-format paintings that attracted such attention in the Paris Salon. Accompanied by a 248-page catalogue in German with 118 colour images priced at €29.
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.
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 the chapel’s construction, its layout, the identities of the effigies and the place of production of its carved retable.
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 the core of traditional art literature. Yet, as Michael Baxandall has shown in his Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, different materials might be related to different geographies and very different discourses. This session aims to explore the material richness of early modern sculpture, focusing in particular on the axis between the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Spain and the New World. More specifically, we are interested in the ways in which different materials might tell different stories about artistic developments, patronage, artists and local traditions, uncover different sources, and create new connections between various geographical areas. The wooden sculptures of Spain are a well-known example; one may also think, among others, of Sicilian wax sculptures, the silver sculptures of Naples, Lecce’s sculptures in the local pietra leccese, or the cornstalk-paste sculptures of Latin America.
Please send proposals to Johannes Röll (roell@biblhertz.it) and Joris van Gastel (gastel@biblhertz.it) by Sunday, 5 June 2016.
As per RSA guidelines, proposals must include the following: paper title (15-word maximum), abstract (150-word maximum), keywords, and a very brief curriculum vitae (300-word maximum).
Exhibition: Dalí, Meadows Museum
Salvador Dalí, An Early Surrealist Masterpiece
Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas
Exhibition closes: 7 August 2016
The 1930s were one of the most creatively fruitful decades of Salvador Dalí’s career. L’homme poisson (The Fish Man) shows both his tremendous imagination as well as his technical adroitness, and offers a revealing glimpse into the artist’s inner psyche. After an auspicious beginning as part of the first exhibition of surrealist works held in the U.S., in 1931, the painting has remained out of the public domain for much of its existence. This exhibition celebrates the Meadows’ acquisition of L’homme poisson—the first painting by Dalí to enter the collection of a Texas museum—and presents a renewed look at this early masterpiece within the artist’s oeuvre of surrealism.
Meadows Museum: Online Collections
Meadows Museum
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas
The entire collection of the Meadows Museum, which has notable holdings of Spanish art, has just been digitised and is available online for browsing and searches.
John Singer Sargent and Spanish Sculpture
John Singer Sargent and Spanish Prosessional Sculpture: Photographs at the V&A
by Chloe Sharpe
Link to the V&A blog post about its John Singer Sargent collection of photographs.
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