Seminar Session – Copied Singularities: Tracking Animal Illustrations around the Early Modern World 

When: 17th April at 6pm (UK Time) via ZoomZoom Link: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/s/95933854468 Artes would like to invite all to the next seminar session as part of the Zurbarán Center for Spanish and Latin American Art-Artes seminar series. In this next session, Dr. Lisa Voigt (Yale University) will be presenting Copied Singularities: Tracking Animal Illustrations around theContinue reading “Seminar Session – Copied Singularities: Tracking Animal Illustrations around the Early Modern World “

CALL FOR PAPERS – Art in Times of War and Peace: Legacies of Early Modern Loot and Repair (Bibliotheca Hertziana)

Rome, Bibliotheca Herztiana – Max Planck Institute for Art History 8–10 May 2024 Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023 A category of objects that exists entirely as a function of violence, the term ‘loot’ describes a relationship of possession, if not more specifically of dispossession. Neither an historically nor materially specific typology of artifacts, loot is instead primarilyContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – Art in Times of War and Peace: Legacies of Early Modern Loot and Repair (Bibliotheca Hertziana)”

CALL FOR PAPERS – Moving Ideas in the Iberian Worlds (RSA Chicago, 2024)

Renaissance Society of America – Chicago, 2024 (March 21 – 23rd) Organizers: Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.Maria Vittoria Spissu, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna Submission Deadline: August 7th, 2023. In the Early Modern period, the transmission of ideas and the movement of people, artworks, and commodities embraced diverse cultural worldsContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – Moving Ideas in the Iberian Worlds (RSA Chicago, 2024)”

ARTES 2023 Nigel Glendinning lecture

“Así repiten aún las piedras”: Juan de Roelas, Seville of 1615, and the City as Substrate Speaker: Dr. Aaron Hyman Date: 25 May 2023, 6 – 7:30 (BST)Place: Lecture Theatre 1 Vernon Square In 1615, Seville erupted with fervent debates about the question of the Virgin’s Immaculacy. Clergymen hoping to sway the hearts and mindsContinue reading “ARTES 2023 Nigel Glendinning lecture”

PSSA Online Lecture | Fathers and Daughters in Sculpture workshops in early modern Spain: Pedro Roldán and his daughters Francisca, Luisa and Maria Roldán; Pedro de Mena and his daughters Andrea and Claudia de Mena, Dr Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, 22 November, 7.30 pm

The Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA) is hosting an online lecture on the seventeenth-century Seville sculptor Pedro Roldán and his legacy as a master, discussing the work of some of his pupils, including of course his daughter Luisa, to be given by Cathy Hall van den Elsen on Tuesday 22 November at 7.30 pm.Continue reading “PSSA Online Lecture | Fathers and Daughters in Sculpture workshops in early modern Spain: Pedro Roldán and his daughters Francisca, Luisa and Maria Roldán; Pedro de Mena and his daughters Andrea and Claudia de Mena, Dr Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, 22 November, 7.30 pm”

AAH Conference CFP – Written In The Margins: Interpreting Early Modern Artistic Literature

Early modern artistic literature is a crucial source for the study of art between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Treatise writers such as Vasari, Pacheco, Baldinucci, and Palomino were crucial to the construction and future interpretation of art and their texts, most of them of hagiographical nature, provide insight into early modern artistic theory andContinue reading “AAH Conference CFP – Written In The Margins: Interpreting Early Modern Artistic Literature”

CFP – Activation. Staging Strategies of Mobile Artworks in the Early Modern Hispanic World 

International and interdisciplinary conferenceBibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome 16 – 17 February 2023Deadline: June 20, 2022 Conception and scientific organisation: Dr. Sven Jakstat, Dr. Johannes Gebhardt, Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky The temporary activation of mobile works of art and cult objects can be traced back to antiquity and continues toContinue reading “CFP – Activation. Staging Strategies of Mobile Artworks in the Early Modern Hispanic World ”

Sir John Elliott Fellowship in Early Modern Spanish Studies (fixed-term)

Exeter College (part of the University of Oxford) invites applications for the Sir John Elliott Fellowship in Early Modern Spanish Studies. This post is made possible through the generosity of Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH). The Fellowship will be tenable for a period of 36 months from 1 September 2022, or as soon asContinue reading “Sir John Elliott Fellowship in Early Modern Spanish Studies (fixed-term)”

TOMORROW: Iberian History at Oxford Online Seminar – Charlene Villaseñor Black – Verdant Worlds: Art and Sustainability across the Cosmos, 26 January 2022, 4:30-6 pm, via Zoom

Charlene Villaseñor Black is Professor of Art History and Chicano/a Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and is currently Terra Visiting Professor of American Art, 2021-22 at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the art of the early modern Ibero-American world as well as contemporary Chicanx visual culture. Her publications include theContinue reading “TOMORROW: Iberian History at Oxford Online Seminar – Charlene Villaseñor Black – Verdant Worlds: Art and Sustainability across the Cosmos, 26 January 2022, 4:30-6 pm, via Zoom”

Zurbaran Centre-ARTES Seminar, 20 October, 6.00 PM | Lisandra Estevez, Jusepe de Ribera’s Otherness: Identity and Representation in Early Modern Iberian Art

We are pleased to announce that the second seminar of our autumn online Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday, 20 October at 6.00 PM, UK time:    Lisandra Estevez: Jusepe de Ribera’s Otherness: Identity and Representation in Early Modern Iberian Art This talk takes a closer look at Ribera’s otherness as an artist.Continue reading “Zurbaran Centre-ARTES Seminar, 20 October, 6.00 PM | Lisandra Estevez, Jusepe de Ribera’s Otherness: Identity and Representation in Early Modern Iberian Art”