EM Spanish History Notes
Concerts/exhibitions/plays
Exhibition: “La otra Corte” in the Palacio Real de Madrid, Dec ’19-March ’20
La otra Corte. Mujeres de la Casa de Austria en los monasterios reales de Las Descalzas y La Encarnación – Palacio Real de Madrid, December 5 2019-March 2020.
Exhibition & Book: Berruguete
“Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain.”
National Gallery of Art, Washington, October 13, 2019-February 17, 2020.
Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, March 29-July 26, 2020.
Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain, C.D. Dickerson III and Mark McDonald, eds, with Manual Arias Martínez, Daphne Barbour, Jonathan Brown, Richard L. Kagan, Wendy Sepponen, and Julia W. Vázquez (Yale, 2019).
Greco Exhibition: Grand Palais, Oct 16 2019-Feb 10, 2020
“Greco,” Grand Palais, Paris, Galerie sud-est, October 16, 2019-February 10, 2020.
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.
