Highlights

<p>María Eugenia de Beer, <em>Queen Isabel de Borbón with Saints Elizabeth of Hungary and Elizabeth of Portugal</em>, frontispiece to Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, “Discursos espirituales” (Madrid: Francisco Martínez, 1641). Newberry Library, Edward E. Ayer Collection</p>Symposium

Spanish Habsburg Women: Objects, Ritual, and Religion in the Early Modern World

4/17/2025 – 4/18/2025
Chicago, IL

This symposium focuses on the spaces and objects that structured religious life for Spanish Habsburg women—among them queens, regents, widows, infantas and nuns—and reinforced their positions as central figures in a global empire.

<p>“Pancho” Fierro (Francisco Fierro Palas, Peruvian, 1807/09–1879), <em>Holy Week Procession on the Calle de San Agustín, Lima</em> (detail), 1830s, watercolor on paper, 44.5 × 475 cm, The Hispanic Society of America, New York (A1585)</p>Symposium Past event

From Lima to Canton and Beyond: The Ethnographic Art of Pancho Fierro and His Contemporaries

Feb 12, 2025
New York, NY

This symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition The Colorful World of Pancho Fierro, Afro-Peruvian Painter organized by the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

SIGA briefs

Announcement 2/10/2025

We were deeply moved by the devastating news that Enrique Valdivieso and his wife, Carmen Martínez, died recently in a tragic accident in Seville. Professor Valdivieso will be remembered by the SIGA community not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his warmth, humor, charisma, and generosity to generations of students and young scholars. The Board extends its heartfelt condolences to their family and friends.

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Publication 2/9/2025

M. Elizabeth (Betsy) Boone has co-edited the volume Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America (Routledge 2025), which includes a number of essays on Iberian Global Art. Written by historians of art and visual culture working in the field of animal studies, these essays seek to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected world.

Publication 2/3/2025

Susan Deans-Smith recently published a review of Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America co-edited by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt.

Announcement 1/24/2025

David Pullins will present the hybrid lecture “Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez” sponsored by the Center for Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 20, 2025.

Publication 1/17/2025

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet and Yonatan Glazer-Eytan published “Infamy within Sight: Making and Unmaking Sambenitos in the Early Modern Iberian World” in Renaissance Quarterly 77:2.

Announcement 1/17/2025

Carmen Ripollés will present “Josefa de Óbidos: A Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia” at the Meadows Museum on January 30, 2025.

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Latest events

  • Dec 8, 2024 – Mar 23, 2025
  • Cleveland, OH
Exhibition
Still Life Under a Lamp, Mougins, March 19, 1962 Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Galerie Louise Leiris. Color linocut on wove paper; image: 52.8 x 63.8 cm (20 13/16 x 25 1/8 in.); sheet: 62 x 74.8 cm (24 7/16 x 29 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1984.61 © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Picasso and Paper

Now

Discover Picasso’s experimental use of paper, from collages to sculpture, in this comprehensive exhibition of his artworks.

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Latest opportunities

  • Deadline: May 1, 2025
  • Online
Publication

61st Edition of the Boletín del Museo del Prado

75 days remaining

The Boletín del Museo del Prado, a double-blind peer-reviewed and open-access scientific journal that is published annually, invites authors to submit papers for its 61st edition (2025).

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Dissertations

Suzanne McLeod

Not So Different: Sensory & Cross Cultural Recognitions between Eighteenth Century Northwest Coast Peoples and Spanish Colonial Expeditions

Adviser: Joyce Szabo
  • In progress
  • University of New Mexico

Aubrey Hobart

Treasures and Splendors: Exhibiting Colonial Latin American Art in U.S. Museums, 1920-2020

Adviser: Carolyn Dean
  • 2018
  • UC Santa Cruz

Modern and Contemporary

#History of Collecting#Colonial and Viceregal

Benjamin Murphy

Fieldwork: Problems of Observation in Latin American Video

Adviser: Irene Small
  • In progress
  • Princeton University

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Who we are

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Two Women at a Window, c. 1655/1660 IBERIAN ART

About SIGA

The Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA) was founded to promote the study of the arts, architecture, and visual cultures of the Iberian world (encompassing Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific) in the United States. The Society encourages and disseminates research in these fields as well as in the legacy of Hispanic and Portuguese studies in North America.

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Manuela Ballestar (1908-1994), Cartulina, 1944. Pencil and watercolor on paper, Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias González Martí (MNC), Valencia Francisco Goya:
María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga, later Condesa de Chinchón, 1783

Awards

To fulfill the society’s mission to promote and disseminate scholarship on global Iberian art in the United States, SIGA offers three prizes that celebrate excellence in the field: The Eleanor Tufts Award, The Jonathan Brown Award and The Gridley McKim-Smith Award.

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Projects

SIGA leads the Visual Arts issue in the Hispanic Research Journal and organizes a Triennial Conference and SIGA@CAA.

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