Habsburg – ARTES

CALL FOR PAPERS – Ambivalent Harmonies: Representing Peace in Time of Conflict in the Early Modern Catholic Iberian Habsburg Worlds

Edited VolumeDeadline: Thursday, June 29, 2023Editors: Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, PomonaMaria Vittoria Spissu, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna Images and texts praising a merciful Catholic Church and a triumphant Habsburg Empire have propagated a fictitious projection of reality. Views of ideal communities committed to sharing instrumental virtues clashed with potentiallyContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – Ambivalent Harmonies: Representing Peace in Time of Conflict in the Early Modern Catholic Iberian Habsburg Worlds”

Conference | Representing Queenship in the Habsburg Monarchy (17th century) – Madrid, 6-7 March 2023

Full Programme available here: bit.ly/3Xv2EQ8 To register please use the online form: https://agenart.org/seminarios/seminario-internacional-representar-la-reginalidad-en-la-monarquia-de-los-austrias-siglo-xvii/

Zurbarán Fellow Public Lecture: Dr Luis Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, ‘The empire strikes back: Baroque art and Spanish contemporary culture’, 12th November at 5.30 pm, Kenworthy Hall, St Mary’s College, Durham University

Hispanic identity has been shaped during the last century by a conscious selection of historical periods of its history. After the loss of the last colonies of the former Spanish Empire at the end of the 19th century, the nation had hit rock bottom in political terms. To counterbalance this decline, writers, poets, essayists andContinue reading “Zurbarán Fellow Public Lecture: Dr Luis Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, ‘The empire strikes back: Baroque art and Spanish contemporary culture’, 12th November at 5.30 pm, Kenworthy Hall, St Mary’s College, Durham University”

Opens today: ‘Woman. Art & Power. Three Habsburg Women’, Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck

Running until 7th October 2018, this large-scale special exhibition at Ambras Castle, Innsbruck focuses on three remarkable Renaissance women, rulers and collectors of the House of Habsburg engaged in the arts: Margaret of Austria (1480-1530), Mary of Hungary (1505-1558), and Catherine of Austria (1507-1578). This will be the first comparative analysis of courtly female patronageContinue reading “Opens today: ‘Woman. Art & Power. Three Habsburg Women’, Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck”