SKIN: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON HISPANIC ARTS AND CULTURES Institute of Advanced Study, Palace Green, Durham Friday, 22 May 2015 To register for the event, please email the organizer (a.m.beresford@durham.ac.uk) indicating if you have any special dietary requirements. There is no registration fee, but all participants will be asked to complete a short impactContinue reading “SKIN: A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM ON HISPANIC ARTS AND CULTURES. Friday, 22nd May 2015”
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Scholarship report from Costanza Beltrami, winner of a 2014 Artes Coll & Cortes Travel Scholarship
Thanks to the ARTES-Coll & Cortés Travel Scholarship, I travelled to Spain in June to visit buildings designed by the fifteenth-century French master mason Juan Guas. During a previous trip, I visited the monastery of San Juan de Los Reyes in Toledo. Designed by Guas, this monastery is a royal foundation established to celebrate theContinue reading “Scholarship report from Costanza Beltrami, winner of a 2014 Artes Coll & Cortes Travel Scholarship”
Scholarship report from Ana Hernández, winner of the 2014 ARTES Coll y Cortes Scholarships for students wishing to conduct research in the UK
The research undertaken in the United Kingdom thanks to the ARTES / Coll&Cortés scholarship has been included in the framework of my doctoral thesis, ‘Tradition and copy in biblical manuscript illumination in the Iberian Peninsula. The Bibles of San Isidoro de León (1162) and San Millán de la Cogolla (ca. 1200)’, supervised by Dr. JoséContinue reading “Scholarship report from Ana Hernández, winner of the 2014 ARTES Coll y Cortes Scholarships for students wishing to conduct research in the UK”
Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize: 2015 winners announced
Artes is delighted to announce the winners of the 2015 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize. First prize is awarded to Rebekah Lee, a PhD student at the University of York, for her essay ‘Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal and the Courtly Portrayal of Middle Age’. The runner up prize goes to Iñigo Basarrate GonzálezContinue reading “Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize: 2015 winners announced”
Myths of Medieval Spain. Symposium, Courtauld Institute, 11 March
LAST MINUTE SPACES NOW AVAILABLE! Myths of Medieval Spain. Symposium, Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2-6.30, Weds 11 March 2015. Attendance is free, but spaces are limited so you must register – NOW OPEN! Four papers offer new ideas on a group of well-known sculptures and manuscripts from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Spain, exploring tensionsContinue reading “Myths of Medieval Spain. Symposium, Courtauld Institute, 11 March”
1st ARTES Coll & Cortés Scholars announced
ARTES is delighted to announce the winners of the 2014 ARTES Coll & Cortés scholarships. Out of a very strong field the following awards were made: ARTES Coll & Cortés PhD Scholarship for students at a UK University This was awarded to Kathryn Santner, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, to support her study ofContinue reading “1st ARTES Coll & Cortés Scholars announced”
Two talks on medieval Spain at the Courtauld Institute
As part of the Courtauld Institute’s annual postgraduate symposium on 6-7 March, Nicola Jennings will give a talk on ‘The Capilla del Contador Saldaña at Santa Clara de Tordesillas: A Study in Converso Patronage’ on Friday 7 March from 12.50-13.40pm. On Thursday 6 March between 14.45-15.40 another student, Michaela Zoschg, will be giving a paper onContinue reading “Two talks on medieval Spain at the Courtauld Institute”
Call for Papers: Theorizing the Spiritual Past: Critical Approaches to Early Iberian Hagiography
Theorizing the Spiritual Past: Critical Approaches to Early Iberian Hagiography College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham, 7‒8 July 2014 Over the last decade there has been a striking upsurge in the volume of critical interest in Iberian hagiography in all of its manifold forms. In painting and the fine arts through to poeticContinue reading “Call for Papers: Theorizing the Spiritual Past: Critical Approaches to Early Iberian Hagiography”
Call for Papers: ‘Representations of Violence and Ethics in Ibero-American Cultures’
Conference to be held on Friday 9th May 2014 at the University of Manchester. For further information please see: http://conferencerveiac.wordpress.com/ We invite colleagues to send an abstract (max. 300 words) for a twenty-minute paper, along with a brief biographical note, by Moday 31st March 2014 to conference.rveiac@gmail.com. Convenors: Ignacio Aguiló (ignacio.aguilo@manchester.ac.uk) and Miquel Pomar-Amer (miquel.pomar-amer@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk) ThisContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Representations of Violence and Ethics in Ibero-American Cultures’”
2014 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal Prizegiving Ceremony
ARTES is delighted to announce that the 2014 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal has been won by Lesley Thornton-Cronin, a first year PhD student at Glasgow University, for her essay ‘Image-Making by Means of Metaphoric Transposition in the Work of Joan Miró’. The runner-up prize is awarded to Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin, a masters student at the WarburgContinue reading “2014 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal Prizegiving Ceremony”
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