Undamaged: Still Lifes from the Spanish Golden Age
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, until 28 February 2016
19 still-lifes and flower-pieces from the Museum’s own collection, by artists such as Juan van der Hamen, Tomas Hiepes and Juan de Arellano are being exhibited before some of them are permanently incorporated into new Renaissance and Baroque displays in 2016. Catalogue in Catalan and Castilian by the curator Joan Yeguas (€28.-).
Spanish Masters from the Hermitage:
The World of El Greco, Ribera, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo & Goya
The Hermitage, Amsterdam, 28 November 2015 – 29 May 2016
More than sixty paintings and a rich collection of graphic works and applied arts masterpieces are on show.
The exhibition Picasso Sculpture, previously showing some 140 works spanning 1902 to 1964 at MoMA, New York (until 7 February 2016), re-opens, in a reduced form, as Picasso: Scuptures (Musée Picasso, Paris: 8 March – 18 September 2016).
MOMA installation reviewed by Rosalind McKeever, Burlington Magazine, December 2015 pp. 880-82 .
Goya: “Invited Work”
Museo del Prado, Madrid1
9 January – 24 April 2016
For a period of three months, Room 34 of the Prado’s Villanueva Building is displaying Goya’s portrait of Don Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Pacheco, 9th Duke of Osuna, one of the most interesting works by the artist among those housed in the Frick Collection in New York. The special loan of this work falls within the context of the Museum’s “Invited Work” programme, an activity sponsored by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado since 2010 with the aim of further enriching a visit to the Museum and establishing points of comparison that allow for a reflection on the works in the Prado’s Permanent Collection.
Link to Press Release: 2016-02-Goya-Osuna-FrickToPrado
Goya’s portrait of his grandson Marianito has gone on exhibition at Ibercaja’s Museo Goya in Zaragoza.
See the following link to an article on the exhibition by ARTES member, Jesusa Vega, Professor of History of Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in last week’s ABC:
Jesusa Vega, “Goya a su nieto”, ABC, 17 January 2016
A significant number of sources for the study of architectural practise survive from medieval Spanish kingdoms when compared to other European territories. Apprenticeship contracts, drawings, sketches and masons’ inventories shed light on the means by which architectural knowledge was transmitted in the Iberian peninsula between 1370 and 1450. This body of evidence – much of it newly discovered – also challenges many long-held assumptions, even if several key problems remain unresolved: the training requirements for masons’ apprentices, the specific skills that defined a master, or the role of drawing in the building process.
This is the second in the Coll & Cortés Medieval Spain Seminars, which take the theme of ‘Gothic Architecture, New Approaches’ from 2015-17. The first lecture in the series was delivered by Eduardo Carrero in October 2015.
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Exhibition closed 10 January 2016
Moves to:
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 9 February – 16 May
Museu Nacional d’Art Catalunya, Barcelona, 16/06-16/09 2016.
Nineteen works owned by the Prado, including the Christ on the Cross and the Resurrection gifted by Plácido Arango, plus 35 from national and international museums, private collectors and religious institutions. Works include the Virgin with the Little Bird from the parish church of San Agustín in Madrid, the Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John from the New Cathedral in Salamanca and the Ecce Homo from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon, which was recently restored in the Prado workshops.
Catalogue: 272 pages, 26,60 €
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