Until February 11, the Frick Collection in New York is celebrating Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, one of the outstanding painters of the Spanish Golden Age, who will turn 400 years old on 31 December. Well known for his religious paintings and his extraordinary depictions of street urchins, he was also an ingenious painter of portraits.Continue reading “Extended: Murillo: The Self-Portraits now on until February 11, 2018”
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Extended: Murillo: The Self-Portraits now on until February 11, 2018
Until February 11, the Frick Collection in New York is celebrating Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, one of the outstanding painters of the Spanish Golden Age, who will turn 400 years old on 31 December. Well known for his religious paintings and his extraordinary depictions of street urchins, he was also an ingenious painter of portraits.Continue reading “Extended: Murillo: The Self-Portraits now on until February 11, 2018”
Featured Exhibition: Portraits
Retratos. Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE de fotografía, Sala Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos (Paseo de Recoletos 23, 28004 Madrid) The exhibition ‘Retratos’ is on at the MAPFRE Foundation until 3 September 2017. Focusing on portraits in the twentieth century, the exhibition features photographs by Spanish and Latin American photographers such as Alberto García-Alix, Cristina García Rodero, Graciela Iturbide,Continue reading “Featured Exhibition: Portraits”
Lecture – Juan de Pareja: Slave Painter at the Spanish Court in the 17th Century by Carmen Fracchia – Tues 17 May 2017 – 6.00 pm – Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Sq., London WC1N 3 AT
Goya’s Duke of Osuna: from Frick to Prado
Goya: “Invited Work” Museo del Prado, Madrid1 9 January – 24 April 2016 For a period of three months, Room 34 of the Prado’s Villanueva Building is displaying Goya’s portrait of Don Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Pacheco, 9th Duke of Osuna, one of the most interesting works by the artist among those housed inContinue reading “Goya’s Duke of Osuna: from Frick to Prado”
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
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”
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