Hernán Cortés Moreno (Cádiz, 1953) has succeeded in renewing the genre of Spanish portraiture by introducing to it elements of abstraction, pop art and cinematography. This exhibition of some 130 portraits of key individuals important to the history, politics and culture of Spain over recent decades and includes a portrait of Sir John Elliott, theContinue reading “Closing Soon: Cortés. Retrato y estructura, Fundación Unicaja de Cádiz, until 31 January 2019”
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Featured exhibition: ‘La hija del Virrey. El mundo femenino novohispano en el siglo XVII’, Museo de América, Madrid, until 3 March
Curated by Andrés Gutiérrez Usillos, this exhibition focuses on an anonymous portrait of c. 1670. The work represents Doña María Luisa de Toledo, daughter of the Marquis of Mancera, Viceroy of New Spain, accompanied by a tattooed Indigenous woman. The show explores the world of the women portrayed in the painting, for example by reconstructing DoñaContinue reading “Featured exhibition: ‘La hija del Virrey. El mundo femenino novohispano en el siglo XVII’, Museo de América, Madrid, until 3 March”
Featured Exhibitions: ‘Zuloaga. Character and Emotion’, Centro Cultural Bancaja, Valencia (until 26 August 2018) and ‘Sorolla and Spirituality’ (until 2 September 2018)
Zuloaga. Character and Emotion (until 26 August 2018) This exhibition features some 66 paintings by the Basque artist, several of which are displayed in public for the first time. Ranging in date from 1888, when Zuloaga was 18, to 1945, the works trace the artist’s development from his training in Paris to the mature workContinue reading “Featured Exhibitions: ‘Zuloaga. Character and Emotion’, Centro Cultural Bancaja, Valencia (until 26 August 2018) and ‘Sorolla and Spirituality’ (until 2 September 2018)”
ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 15 May 2018
13:00 – 14:30 13:00 – 14:30 Registration and opportunity to visit the drawings by Murillo and other Spanish masters in the Courtauld Prints and Drawings Study Room (Please note: directions to the Study Room and information on the visit will be provided upon registration) 14:30 Welcome 14:35 – 15:05 Manuela Mena Marqués, SeniorContinue reading “ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 15 May 2018”
ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 15 May 2018
13:00 – 14:30 13:00 – 14:30 Registration and opportunity to visit the drawings by Murillo and other Spanish masters in the Courtauld Prints and Drawings Study Room (Please note: directions to the Study Room and information on the visit will be provided upon registration) 14:30 Welcome 14:35 – 15:05 Manuela Mena Marqués, SeniorContinue reading “ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 15 May 2018”
ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 15 May 2018
13:00 – 14:30 Registration and opportunity to visit the drawings by Murillo and other Spanish masters in the Courtauld Prints and Drawings Study Room (Please note: directions to the Study Room and information on the visit will be provided upon registration) 14:30 Welcome 14:35 – 15:05 Manuela Mena Marqués, Senior Curator of 18th CenturyContinue reading “ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 15 May 2018”
ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 15 May 2018
13:00 – 14:30 Opportunity to visit the drawings by Murillo and other Spanish masters in the Courtauld Prints and Drawings Study Room 14:30 Welcome 14:35 – 15:05 Manuela Mena Marqués, Senior Curator of 18th Century Painting and Goya, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid: “Murillo the Draughtsman” 15:05 – 15:35 Xanthe Brooke, Curator of Continental European Art,Continue reading “ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 15 May 2018”
Curator-led Visit for ARTES Members: MURILLO: THE SELF-PORTRAITS at the National Gallery, London, 15 May 2018
ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Insitute of Art, 15 May 2018
13:00 – 14:30 Opportunity to visit the drawings by Murillo and other Spanish masters in the Courtauld Prints and Drawings Study Room 14:30 Welcome 14:35 – 15:05 Manuela Mena Marqués, Senior Curator of 18th Century Painting and Goya, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid: “Murillo the Draughtsman” 15:05 – 15:35 Xanthe Brooke, Curator of Continental European Art,Continue reading “ARTES Symposium: Murillo in perspective, The Courtauld Insitute of Art, 15 May 2018”
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