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.
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.
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).
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.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez: Portrait of Queen Mariana
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.
ARTES member Professor Jesusa Vega and keynote speaker at our Goya Symposium last November writes in El País on the decision by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP) to deattribute two paintings in the Prado: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things and The Temptation of St Anthony.
Copperfield London is pleased to announce the first UK solo exhibition of Marco Godoy (b.1986 Madrid), following his MA at the Royal College of Art (2014) and subsequent inclusion in group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo and the Centre Pompidou.
Focusing on the visual and symbolic relationships between authority and power, Godoy analyses the social and political ramifications of the real and fictional divides that make up the European Union. Mixing sculpture, installation and performance, the exhibition frustrates any fixed conception of either physical or symbolic borders.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
22 March – 28 August 2016
Born in 1957 in Majorca, Barceló is the first contemporary artist invited to present a monographic exhibition at the recently reopened Musée Picasso. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and works on paper, from the 1990s to the present day, are on display, highlighting the affinities with Picasso’s work processes and motifs.
The BnF, meanwhile, focuses on Barceló’s prints.
Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid,
9 February – 22 May 2016 — EXTENDED TO 29 MAY 2016
Shows the work of a group of modern and contemporary realist painters and sculptors, who have worked in Madrid since the 1950s. The display has a thematic structure and includes 89 works, oil paintings, sculptures, reliefs and drawings, all depicting domestic interiors, courtyards and street-views of the city of Madrid. Exhibition catalogue: texts by Guillermo Solana, Jürgen Schilling and Francisco Calvo Serraller.
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