EM Spanish History Notes
Concerts/exhibitions/plays
Exhibition, Review, & Catalogue: Bartolomé Bermejo
Exhibition: “Bartolomé Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance,” The National Gallery, 12 June-29 Septbmer 2019.
Review: Isabelle Kent in Apollo June 25, 2019.
Exhibition catalog: Letizia Treves; with contributions by Paul Ackroyd, Rachel Billinge, Lorne Campbell, Tobias Capwell, Gabriele Finaldi, Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, Gabriiella Macaro, Joan Molina Figueras, David Peggie, and Marika Spring, Bartolomé Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance (Yale, 2019).
Gelber Reviews Carlos III Exhibitions
Two years late but still worth knowing about:
David Gelber, “The light and shade of Carlos III of Spain,” Apollo, January 18, 2017
Met Exhibition: “Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790” through July 22, 2018 (+Catalogue)
“Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790:Pinxit Mexici” will be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 24 to July 22, 2018. It had been at LACMA during the winter of 2017-18.
The catalogue was written by Ilona Katzew, with contributions from Luisa Elena Alcalá, Jaime Cuadriello, Paula Mues Orts, and Ronda Kasl.
Exhibition: Zurbarán’s Jacob and his Twelve Sons at the Frick, through April 22, 2018
Fenton Reviews Cristóbal de Villalpando at the Met (& the Catalogue), NYRB, Oct 12, 2017
James Fenton reviews “Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque,” an exhibition at the Palacio de Cultura Citibanamex–Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City, March 9–June 4, 2017; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, July 25–October 15, 2017.
Wheeler Reviews “Goya: The Portraits” at the National Gallery in TLS, Nov 6, 2015
In the Times Literary Supplement, Nov 6, 2015, Duncan Wheeler reviews “Goya: The Portraits,” at the National Gallery.
The exhibition itself runs through January 10, 2016.
Exhibition at the Courtauld: “Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album,” to May 25, 2015
The Courtauld Gallery, “Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album,” Feb 26-May 25, 2015.
Also, a catalogue.
Review by T.J. Clark in the London Review of Books, 37/7, April 9, 2015.
Goya at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, to January 19, 2015
“Goya: Order and Disorder,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 12, 2014-Jan. 19, 2015.
Also a review of this exhibition, “The Light and Dark of Francisco Goya,” by Cólm Tóibin in the New York Review of Books, December 18, 2014.
And the book by Stephanie Loeb Stepanek, Frederick Ilchman and Janis A.Tomlinson, Goya: Order and Disorder (2014).
Rowland on El Greco – NY Review of Books
The New York Review of Books, June 19, 2014:
Ingrid D. Rowland, “Irresistible El Greco” reviews:
El Griego de Toledo, an exhibition at the Museo de Santa Cruz and other venues, Toledo, Spain, March 14-June 14, 2014.
Catalog of the exhibition ed. Fernando Marías (Madrid, El Viso, 2014).
Fernando Marías, El Greco: Life and Work – A New History, trans. Paul Edson and Sander Berg (Thames and Hudson, 2014).
