Highlights
LectureProblems in Velázquez’s Portraiture
In this year’s Nigel Glendinning annual lecture sponsored by our sister organization ARTES, Peter Cherry will discuss new research on Velázquez’s portraits.
LectureFrom Queen Consort to Regent Widow: The Life of Mariana of Austria in Portraits
Patricia Manzano Rodríguez, the curator at the Meadows Museum, explores key works by Velázquez that reflect Mariana of Austria’s evolving roles and how her identity was shaped and immortalized through art.
SIGA Briefs
The Courtauld and Case Western Reserve University will jointly host the two-day symposium Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture in London on May 19-20, 2025. Find the program and free registration on the event’s website.
Mark McDonald (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) has published Pedro de Villafranca: Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV (CEEH, 2025).
Anthony Meyer received the 2025 Biennial Dissertation Award from the Association for Latin American Art in February for his dissertation The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds.
Holly Trusted has been appointed a Center for Spain in America Fellow at the Clark (January-June, 2025). She is working on a new book about the Spanish baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652-1706) along with the great Roldán expert, the Australian scholar Cathy Hall. Together, they are planning a catalogue of this important sculptor’s works in both wood and terracotta. Trusted and Hall recently completed a tour of museums on the East Coast that house key works by Luisa, where they were warmly welcomed by curators and conservators alike.
The exhibition Zurbarán (super)natural has recently opened at the MNAC in Barcelona and runs until June 29, 2025.
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Problems in Velázquez’s Portraiture
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In this year’s Nigel Glendinning annual lecture sponsored by our sister organization ARTES, Peter Cherry will discuss new research on Velázquez’s portraits.
From Queen Consort to Regent Widow: The Life of Mariana of Austria in Portraits
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Patricia Manzano Rodríguez, the curator at the Meadows Museum, explores key works by Velázquez that reflect Mariana of Austria’s evolving roles and how her identity was shaped and immortalized through art.
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“The Foundation of Our Genius”: Racial Epistemologies and Global Iberian Visual and Material Cultures, edited by Ray Hernández-Durán and Claudia Hopkins, builds on the SIGA-sponsored session at CAA 2024.
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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.
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.
Projects
SIGA leads the Visual Arts issue in the Hispanic Research Journal and organizes a Triennial Conference and SIGA@CAA.
News Briefs
Follow us on Bluesky to stay updated about Global Iberian Visual Arts news not only in the U.S. but also in Spain and other countries. Here are some recent posts:
📝✨ Final call for submissions! The Boletín del Museo del Prado is preparing its 61st edition — and your research could be part of it! 🖋️📚 1/5
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Sunday, April 27, 2025
📢 It's time to meet another member of the SIGA Board! Introducing María Cruz de Carlos Varona — SIGA's International Representative and Associate Professor of Art History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid! 🌍🎨 (1/8)
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
🌍✈️ Calling all scholars of Spanish art and material culture! The Custard Institute for Spanish Art and Culture at the Meadows Museum offers a $2,000 fellowship to support research & study in Spain! 🧵👇 (1/4)
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Sunday, April 20, 2025
A sneak peek at the first book in English on 17th-century Portuguese painter Josefa de Óbidos
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Saturday, April 19, 2025
📢 Meet the SIGA Board! We're thrilled to continue our intro series with another fantastic member of the team. 🧵 (1/6)
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Friday, April 18, 2025
👑 From Queen Consort to Regent Widow: The Life of Mariana of Austria in Portraits Join us May 1 at the Meadows Museum in Dallas for a deep dive into queenship, legacy, and portraiture at the Spanish court. 🎤 Patricia Manzano Rodríguez, curator 🕕 6–7 PM CDT 🎟 Free–$10 (1/2)
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025