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Save the Date: Triennial Conference
Please save the date for SIGA’s Triennial Conference, SIGA/Seguir: Moving Forward in the Study of Iberian Global Art. The conference will be held in Washington, D.C. on September 27-28, 2024. A call for papers will be issued in spring 2024.
Olga Bush: The Textility of the Alhambra
Olga Bush has published “The Textility of the Alhambra,” in Didem Ekici, Patricia Blessing and Basile C. Baudez (eds.), Textile in Architecture. From the Middle Ages to Modernism (New York: Routledge, 2023), 138-155.
Jesús Escobar named Center for Spain in America Fellow
Jesús Escobar is the Center for Spain in America Fellow at The Clark Art Institute for Fall 2023. His research will be focused on “Architecture and Experience in the Seventeenth-Century World.”
Dissertations
The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds
By Anthony Meyer, UCLA, 2023
Facing Pilgrimage: Tenon Head Sculptures at the Ceremonial Center of Chavín de Huántar, Peru
By Patricia Lagarde, Tulane University, 2022
Artifex. Architectural Reasoning, Drawing and Rhetoric in the Oeuvre of Friar Juan Ricci de Guevara (1600-1681)
By Martijn van Beek, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2021
Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain
By Rebecca Teresi, Johns Hopkins University, 2021
Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop’s Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception
By Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, University of Cambridge, 2021
Fertile Terrain: Botany, Art, and Power in Cuba’s Nineteenth Century
By Emily Sessions, Yale University, 2020