SIGA briefs
Shannah Rose named Fellow at American Academy in Rome
Shannah Rose (PhD Candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) was awarded the 2024-2025 Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Marian and Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome
Reva Wolf: The Victim as Martyr
Reva Wolf recently published the essay “The Victim as Martyr: The Black Legend and Eighteenth-Century Images of Inquisition Punishments, from Picart to Coustos to Goya” in The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century. The book is part of the series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and is edited by Catherine Jaffe and Karen Stolley. The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) held a panel about the book at its 2024 conference, in Toronto, at which Reva and five other contributors to the book spoke.
Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo leads Silos Cloister Tour
On April 12, Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo gave a tour of the cloister of Silos to the attendees of the British Archaeological Association meeting in Valladolid, Spain.
SIGA @ CAA 2025 (New York)
SIGA members interested in chairing our society’s sponsored panel at the annual meeting of the College Art Association (New York, 2025) are invited to submit proposals before April 17.
Amanda Wunder: Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez
Amanda Wunder has published Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (Yale University Press, 2024). The book will be available in the U.S. on March 26th. Yale University Press is offering a 30% discount on orders placed via their website: enter code SFAOV when checking out. The book has been simultaneously released in Spanish as La moda española en la época de Velázquez: Un sastre en la corte de Felipe IV (Ediciones El Viso, 2023).
Orlando Hernández Ying appointed curator at NOMA
Orlando Hernández Ying has been appointed as Curator of Arts of the Americas at the New Museum of Art.
Carmen Ripollés: Forjando una identidad
Carmen Ripollés has published the article “Forjando una identidad: Autoimagen y Conciencia Artística en los primeros grabados de Josefa de Óbidos.” Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte, 35 (2023): 65-88.
Cloe Cavero de Carondelet named Lecturer and Fellow
Cloe Cavero de Carondelet has been appointed Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University and a 2024-2025 Fellow at the Center for Research on Global Catholicism (SLU).