SIGA briefs

1/3/2024 Publication

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet: The Lingering Presence of Anti-Jewish Libels in Spanish Visual Culture

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet has recently published “The Lingering Presence of Anti-Jewish Libels in Spanish Visual Culture”, in The Lost Mirror. Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain, ed. by Joan Molina, exh. cat. Museo del Prado – MNAC, 2023, 160–173.

12/12/2023 Publication

Luis Gordo Peláez and Paul B. Niell: Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850

Luis J. Gordo Peláez and Paul B. Niell have edited Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850 (Routledge, 2024).

12/11/2023 Publication

José Ramón Marcaida López: Ingenio and Artimaña

José Ramón Marcaida López has published “Ingenio and Artimaña. Technique and the Art of Painting in Early Modern Spain” in The Making of Technique in the Arts, edited by Sven Dupré and Marieke Hendriksen (Brepols, 2023).

12/10/2023 Publication

Fernando Marías and José Riello: El Greco in italiano

Fernando Marías and José Riello have published “El Greco in italiano. Postille di un patrimonio storiografico,” in El Greco. Un pittore nel labirinto, edited by Juan Antonio García Castro and Palma Martínez-Burgos García. Milan, Skira, 2023, pp. 109-123.

10/18/2023 Announcement

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 20-21, 2024. View the call for papers, with a deadline of March 1, 2024.

10/9/2023 Publication

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.

9/5/2023 People

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.”

8/31/2023 Publication

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet: A Copperplate of the Dominican Martyrs of Japan

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet has published “A Copperplate of the Dominican Martyrs of Japan Reused by Murillo” in Print Quarterly, vol. XL, no. 3 (2023), 251-264, an article that places this little-known image as part of the global missionary aspirations of the Dominican order.