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Parution : Marlène Albert Llorca et Pierre Rouillard, “The Many Faces of the Lady of Elche. Essays on the Reception of an Iberian Sculpture”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025

On 4 August 1897, farm workers in Elche — the site of ancient Ilici — discovered an Iberian sculpture of a woman that dated from the fifth– fourth centuries BCE. French archaeologist Pierre Paris dubbed this figure ‘the Lady of Elche’, and promptly purchased the sculpture on behalf of the Louvre Museum. There, she drew the attention of European scholars who were intrigued by her stylistic features, finally concluding that she bore witness to the...

Parution : Catherine Hall-van den Elsen, “Gender and the Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia”, Londres, Routledge, 2024

This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700. Using the life-stage framework popular in texts of the period and drawing on a broad spectrum of materials including conduct guidebooks, treatises and conventual rules, this book examines the constraints imposed by gender-related social structures through microhistories of...

Appel à communications : “Ibersaints – Making and Remaking Saints in the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period c. 600 – 1600”, Salamanque, Université de Salamanque, 24-26 mars 2025, date limite le 30 septembre 2024

IBERSAINTS Making and Remaking Saints in the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period c. 600 – 1600 CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS 24 – 26 March 2025 Sala de Grados – Faculty of Geography and History, University of Salamanca Museum of Salamanca We kindly invite paper and poster proposals for an in-person international conference hosted by the University of Salamanca in collaboration with the Museum of Salamanca, Salamanca,...

Parution : Dagmar H. Eichberger (dir.), “A spectacle for a Spanish Princess”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023

On the evening of 9 December 1496, Princess Joanna, Infanta of Castile, reaches the outskirts of Brussels where a procession of secular and ecclesiastical dignitaries welcomes her. After having been married to Philip the Fair in Lier, Joanna travelled to Brussels by herself. Equipped with torches and processional crosses, the citizens accompany her all the way to the heart of the city, the large market square with its magnificent town hall. The Berlin manuscript 78...

Parution : Abigail D. Newman, “Painting Flanders Abroad : Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid”, Brill, Leyde, 2022

  In Painting Flanders Abroad: Flemish Art and Artists in Seventeenth-Century Madrid, Flemish immigrants and imported Flemish paintings cross the paths of Spanish kings, collectors, dealers, and artists in the Spanish court city, transforming the development and nature of seventeenth-century Spanish painting. Examining these Flemish transplants and the traces their interactions left in archival documents, collection inventories, art treatises, and most saliently Spanish “Golden Age” paintings, this book portrays Spanish society grappling with a long...