Date: 18th August, 2023 ARTES would like to share a reminder of our upcoming 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 workingContinue reading “REMINDER: Upcoming ARTES visit TO BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNTY DURHAM – 18th August, 2023”
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Zurbarán Center Summer Lectures 2023
Date: July 14th, 2023. Time: 11:30am to 12:30pm 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 theContinue reading “Zurbarán Center Summer Lectures 2023”
ARTES VISIT TO BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNTY DURHAM – 18th August, 2023
Date: 18th August, 2023. 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,Continue reading “ARTES VISIT TO BISHOP AUCKLAND, COUNTY DURHAM – 18th August, 2023”
Updated Programme: COLLECTING SPAIN: SPANISH DECORATIVE ARTS IN BRITAIN AND SPAIN, Hochhauser Auditorium, Victoria and Albert Museum, 8 and 9 June 2018
Coordinators: Ana Cabrera and Lesley Miller This conference explores collecting practices, attitudes to and perceptions of Spanish decorative arts in Britain and Spain from the 19thcentury onwards, and how these attitudes influenced the development of museums and museum collections in both countries. The case studies aredrawnfrom the British and Spanish museum collections. The conference isContinue reading “Updated Programme: COLLECTING SPAIN: SPANISH DECORATIVE ARTS IN BRITAIN AND SPAIN, Hochhauser Auditorium, Victoria and Albert Museum, 8 and 9 June 2018”
Lecture: Edward Payne (The Auckland Project), ‘In the Shadow of Louis-Philippe: Building a Spanish Gallery in County Durham,’ Visual Cultures Forum, Queen Mary University of London, 22 March 2018
On 22 March 2018 at 6 pm ARTES Committee Member Edward Payne will lecture on ‘In the Shadow of Louis-Philippe: Building a Spanish Gallery in County Durham,’ at the Visual Cultures Forum of Queen Mary University of London. The lecture will offer a glimpse behind the scenes of an exciting project in the North East of England.Continue reading “Lecture: Edward Payne (The Auckland Project), ‘In the Shadow of Louis-Philippe: Building a Spanish Gallery in County Durham,’ Visual Cultures Forum, Queen Mary University of London, 22 March 2018”
Closing Soon: The Auckland Project at Sotheby’s: Paintings from the Spanish Gallery, Sotheby’s New York
Open until 11 February 1334 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 This exhibition features a selection of outstanding Spanish Old Master paintings by such artists as Juan de Juanes, Juan Bautista Maíno, Juan van der Hamen, Francisco Bayeu and others. Acquired by The Auckland Project through Sotheby’s, these works will feature in the collection of the SpanishContinue reading “Closing Soon: The Auckland Project at Sotheby’s: Paintings from the Spanish Gallery, Sotheby’s New York”
Opens Today: Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle at The Frick Collection, New York
From January 31, 2018 to April 22, 2018 In collaboration with the Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas, and The Auckland Project, County Durham, England, The Frick Collection is organising an exhibition of Jacob and His Twelve Sons, an ambitious series of thirteen paintings that depict life-size figures from the Old Testament. On loan from Auckland Castle, theContinue reading “Opens Today: Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle at The Frick Collection, New York”
Featured Exhibition: The Auckland Project at Sotheby’s: Paintings from the Spanish Gallery, Sotheby’s New York
Open until 11 February 1334 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 This exhibition features a selection of outstanding Spanish Old Master paintings by such artists as Juan de Juanes, Juan Bautista Maíno, Juan van der Hamen, Francisco Bayeu and others. Acquired by The Auckland Project through Sotheby’s, these works will feature in the collection of the SpanishContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: The Auckland Project at Sotheby’s: Paintings from the Spanish Gallery, Sotheby’s New York”
Symposium: El Greco to Goya: Spanish Masterpieces from The Bowes Museum
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Opens today: ‘Zurbarán: Jacob and his Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle’
Zurbarán: Jacob and his Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle, Meadows Museum, Dallas, USA, September 17, 2017 – January 7, 2018 Francisco de Zurbarán was born in Fuente de Cantos, in Western Spain, but spent most of his working life in Seville. Like Ribera, Zurbarán is also considered a Caravaggista (a follower of the Italian painter MichelangeloContinue reading “Opens today: ‘Zurbarán: Jacob and his Twelve Sons, Paintings from Auckland Castle’”
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