SIGA briefs
Olga Bush: "Color and Geometry in the Alhambra and What Got Lost in the Alhambresque"
Olga Bush has published “Color and Geometry in the Alhambra and What Got Lost in the Alhambresque,” in Geometry and Color. Decoding the Arts of Islam in the West from the Mid-19th to the Early 20th Century, edited by Sandra Gianfreda, Francine Giese, Ariane Varela Braga, and Axel Langerin, Manazir 3 (2021) [published 2022], 13-29.
Cloe Cavero de Carondelet: "Wounds on Trial: Forensic Truth, Sanctity, and the Early Modern Visual Culture of Ritual Murder"
Cloe Cavero de Carondelet has published “Wounds on Trial: Forensic Truth, Sanctity, and the Early Modern Visual Culture of Ritual Murder,” in Sacred Images and Normativity: Contested Forms in Early Modern Art, ed. by Chiara Franceschini, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021 [2022], 68-85.
Kate Holohan appointed Curator of Education and Academic Outreach (Syracuse)
Kate Holohan was appointed Curator of Education and Academic Outreach at the Syracuse University Art Museum.
Passing of Sir John H. Elliott
The inestimable historian and Hispanist Sir John H. Elliott has passed away. Read about his legacy in El País and as well as in The Guardian.
Luis Gordo Peláez publishes an article and essay on infrastructure in New Spain
Luis Gordo Peláez has published “Grain Architecture in Bourbon New Spain: On the Design of Guadalajara and Querétaro’s Alhóndigas,” Arts 11 (2), 42 (2022) as well as “Water and Infrastructure in Late Colonial Guanajuato,” in The Routledge Handbook on Infrastructure Design: Global Views from Architectural History, ed. Joseph Heathcott (New York: Routledge, 2022), 283-93. The article was featured on the cover of Arts’ April 2022 issue.
Passing of Professor David Davies
Our sister organization ARTES UK has announced the sad passing of Professor David Davies.
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.