SIGA briefs
Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón appointed curator (Ponce)
Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón has been appointed Curator at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Hannah Friedman awarded Nelson prize
Hannah Friedman’s article “Jusepe de Ribera’s Five Senses and the Practice of Prudence” has won the RSA’s William Nelson Prize for the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly during 2021.
Shannon Wearing (ed.): Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts
Shannon Wearing has co-edited the newly published volume Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts, edited by Joseph Salvatore Ackley and Shannon L. Wearing (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022).
Benito Navarrete Prieto named 2021 Tufts Award winner
Benito Navarrete Prieto has been named the 2021 recipient of SIGA’s annual Eleanor Tufts Award for his book Murillo: Persuasion and Aura (Harvey Miller, 2021). Honorable mentions go to Noelia García Pérez (ed.), The Making of Juana de Austria: Gender, Art, and Patronage in Early Modern Iberia (LSU Press, 2021) and Laura Fernández-González, Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire (Penn State, 2021). Read an article in the Diario de Sevilla about Professor Navarrete’s award.
Passing of Jonathan Brown
SIGA joins the IFA/NYU community in mourning the loss of Jonathan Brown, one of the greatest Hispanists of the 20th century. Read his obituary in the New York Times.
Adam Jasienski awarded Porter Prize
Adam Jasienski won the prestigious Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for a distinguished article published in the Art Bulletin during the previous year for his article “Converting Portraits: Repainting as Art Making in the Early Modern Hispanic World,” The Art Bulletin, vol. 102, no. 1 (March 2020): 7–30.