Antonio Gallardo Ballart Donation: New Masterpieces for the Museum Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona 17 March – 3 July 2016 Display of 17 Romanesque and Gothic paintings and mural fragments selected from artworks presented to the Museum in recent years by the collector Antonio Gallardo Ballart. These acquisitions constitute the most outstanding contributionContinue reading “Medieval Acquisitions, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona”
Tag Archives: 2016
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.Continue reading “CLosing soon: Salvador Dalí at the Menil (Houston)”
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 theContinue reading “The Chapel of Contador Saldaña at Santa Clara de Tordesillas”
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. AfterContinue reading “Exhibition: Dalí, Meadows Museum”
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.
British Spanish Society – Art Tour of Madrid – 22-25 September 2016
El País Article – ARTES member Jesusa Vega discusses the Issue of Deattribution
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. La Mesa de los pecados capitales noContinue reading “El País Article – ARTES member Jesusa Vega discusses the Issue of Deattribution”
Joan Miró, Frankfurt
Exhibition: Joan Miró: Painting Walls, Painting Worlds Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 26 February – 12 June 2016 A little known aspect of Miró’s oeuvre: Approximately 50 large-format works.
Exhibition: Sorolla, Madrid
Exhibition: Sorolla tierra adentro Museo Sorolla, Madrid 9 February – 5 June 2016 Final month of an exhibition reuniting 35 landscape paintings belonging to the Sorolla Museum. Focuses on views of Spain’s interior, especially Castille’s central meseta, Asturian mountains and a series of cathedrals and Andalucian monuments, patios and gardens. Painted by Sorolla in 1902, alongsideContinue reading “Exhibition: Sorolla, Madrid”
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