ARTES Visit – Exhibition – El Greco at the National Gallery – 18 June 2015

ARTES Members Private Visit The National Gallery London  El Greco at the National Gallery Thursday 18 June 2015 8.50 am – 10.00 am (meeting at West Entrance) This visit is at the kind invitation of Curator Letizia Treves of the National Gallery will be talking about the El Greco display. She will be joined byContinue reading “ARTES Visit – Exhibition – El Greco at the National Gallery – 18 June 2015”

Scholarship report from Costanza Beltrami, winner of a 2014 Artes Coll & Cortes Travel Scholarship

Thanks to the ARTES-Coll & Cortés Travel Scholarship, I travelled to Spain in June to visit buildings designed by the fifteenth-century French master mason Juan Guas. During a previous trip, I visited the monastery of San Juan de Los Reyes in Toledo. Designed by Guas, this monastery is a royal foundation established to celebrate theContinue reading “Scholarship report from Costanza Beltrami, winner of a 2014 Artes Coll & Cortes Travel Scholarship”

Scholarship report from Ana Hernández, winner of the 2014 ARTES Coll y Cortes Scholarships for students wishing to conduct research in the UK

The research undertaken in the United Kingdom thanks to the ARTES / Coll&Cortés scholarship has been included in the framework of my doctoral thesis, ‘Tradition and copy in biblical manuscript illumination in the Iberian Peninsula. The Bibles of San Isidoro de León (1162) and San Millán de la Cogolla (ca. 1200)’, supervised by Dr. JoséContinue reading “Scholarship report from Ana Hernández, winner of the 2014 ARTES Coll y Cortes Scholarships for students wishing to conduct research in the UK”

Itinerarios XXI, Fundación Botín, Santander, 28 March – 31 May 2015 Exhibition of works by nine Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American contemporary artists who are the recipients of the 21st Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grants for 2013-2014. Carles Congost (Gerona, 1970), Albert Corbí (Valencia, 1976), Patricia Esquivias (Caracas, 1979), Jon Mikel Euba (Vizcaya, 1967), RodrigoContinue reading

CFP: Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800. Deadline: 8 May 2015

CAA 2016 session Washington, DC 3-6 February 2016 CFP: Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800 Sponsored by ASHAHS. Chair: Professor Ilenia Colón Mendoza: ilenia.colonmendoza@ucf.edu    

CFP: The Cleric’s Craft: Crossroads of Medieval Spanish Literature and Modern Critique. Deadline: 1 June 2015,

The Cleric’s Craft: Crossroads of Medieval Spanish Literature and Modern Critique University of Texas, El Paso 22-24 October 2015 This interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals on topics in a number of disciplines, including art history.  Deadline: 1 June 2015. Programme Click here for CFP        

“Sagrada Família – Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece”, New York: Closes 8 May 2015

Exhibition,  Sagrada Família – Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture City College of New York (141 Convent Avenue, New York City). The exhibit in the Spitzer School’s Atrium Gallery includes photographs, architectural models and casts used in construction. It also showcases the 3D computer imaging software used to analyze and draw preciseContinue reading ““Sagrada Família – Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece”, New York: Closes 8 May 2015″

Anna McSweeney : “Arthur von Gwinner and the Alhambra cupola in Berlin”, 7 May 2015

RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART Department of the History of Art & Archaeology SOAS, University of London Anna McSweeney on “Arthur von Gwinner and the Alhambra Cupola in Berlin” Thursday 7 May 2015 5.30pm in Room B111 (Brunei Building) Abstract: One of the jewels in the collection of the Museum für Islamische Kunst in BerlinContinue reading “Anna McSweeney : “Arthur von Gwinner and the Alhambra cupola in Berlin”, 7 May 2015″

Tradition and Transition in the Spanish Avant-Garde. Conference, UMich, Ann Arbor, 10-11 April 2015

Tradition and Transition in the Spanish Avant-Garde Conference, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 10-11 April 2015. Keynote: Jordana Mendelson: “Up in Smoke: Paper, Publicity, and the Avant-Garde in Barcelona” Angell Hall 3222, Friday, 10 April 2015, 6:00PM. The conference is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, the DepartmentContinue reading “Tradition and Transition in the Spanish Avant-Garde. Conference, UMich, Ann Arbor, 10-11 April 2015”

CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins

CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins Deadline: 13 May 2015 In recent years, meta-critical studies such as Ideologies of Hispanism (2005), Spain Beyond Spain (2005), Reading Iberia (2007), Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI (2011) and Iberian Modalities (2013) have sought to uncover the ideological discourses underlying Hispanic StudiesContinue reading “CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins”