Born in Tallinn, Michel Sittow, studied in the studio of his father Clawes van der Sittow, a respected painter and wood carver. In 1484, the young artist headed to Bruges, the art centre of the Netherlands at the time, probably to work in the studio of Hans Memling, a German who was the town’s mostContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: Michel Sittow. Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe, until 16 September at The Kumu Museum, Tallinn”
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Upcoming exhibition: Picasso Portraits, London
Picasso Portraits National Portrait Gallery, London 6 October 2016 – 5 February 2017 Major exhibition of over eighty works focusing on the artist’s portrayal of family, friends and lovers from all periods of his career and in all media. Works on show range from the realist paintings of his boyhood to his later ultra-spontaneous canvases.Continue reading “Upcoming exhibition: Picasso Portraits, London”
GOYA PORTRAITS – THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON – LUNCHTIME TALKS
EXHIBITION EVENTS GOYA THE PORTRAITS The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre Lunchtime Talks – Free, no booking Courses – £14/£12 concession/£10 members October-December 2015 1.00-1.45pm OCTOBER Lunchtime talk Thursday 29 October Goya & the Duchess of Alba Marcus B. Burke Senior Curator, Museum Department, The Hispanic Society of America, New York NOVEMBER Course (Sainsbury WingContinue reading “GOYA PORTRAITS – THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON – LUNCHTIME TALKS”
ARTES Goya Symposium – Thursday 19 November 2015 – Instituto Cervantes London
ARTES Private View – Goya: The Portraits – The National Gallery – Thurs 19 November 2015
Jaume Plensa in Chicago
Jaume Plensa: 1004 Portraits Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, 17 June 2014 – 1 December 2015. Four of Plensa’s portrait heads in stone and cast iron, ranging from 21 to 36 foot in height, are on display in Chicago’s Millenium Park to celebrate its 10th anniversary. They continue the story of the Barcelona-based Plensa’s original 1000Continue reading “Jaume Plensa in Chicago”
Exhibition: Goya portraits: National Gallery, London
Forthcoming exhibition: Goya Portraits National Gallery, London Wed 7 October 2015 – Sun 10 January 2016 The first exhibition in the UK to focus solely on Goya’s portraits. It will look at a wide range of works across his career, from official commissions depicting monarchs and generals through to informal images capturing close friends andContinue reading “Exhibition: Goya portraits: National Gallery, London”
El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, Madrid
El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, exhibition, Palacio Real, Madrid, 4 December 2014 – 19 April 2015. Paintings and sculptures produced for the Spanish Court. Includes Ribera’s Don Juan Jose de Austria on Horseback; and the contemporary group portrait of the present royal family by Antonio Lopez, which apparently tookContinue reading “El Retrato en las Colecciones Reales de Juan de Flandes a Antonio López, Madrid”
Association of Art Historians – Annual Conference April 2015 – Call for Papers – Deadline 10 November 2014
AAH2015 41st Annual Conference & Bookfair Sainsbury Institute for Art, UEA, Norwich 9 – 11 April 2015 Portraiture and the Unworthy Subject in the Early Modern World Paper proposals, to be sent to the session convenor in accordance with proposal guidelines. Paper proposal deadline: 10 November 2014 Session convenor: Carmen Fracchia, Birkbeck, University of London, c.fracchia@bbk.ac.uk InContinue reading “Association of Art Historians – Annual Conference April 2015 – Call for Papers – Deadline 10 November 2014”
Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Oviedo
Daniel Vázquez Díaz (1882-1969), Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo, 17 June – 21 September. 40 portrait drawings of the artist’s contemporaries selected from the series Hombres de mi tiempo in the collection of the Madrid-based Fundación Mapfre. Alongside the drawings the Asturias museum is also showing a key painting Bañistas / Desnudos en laContinue reading “Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Oviedo”
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