SIGA briefs
Jesús Escobar named 2022 Tufts Award Winner
Jesús Escobar has been named the 2022 recipient of SIGA’s annual Eleanor Tufts Award for his book Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2022). Honorable mention goes to Byron Ellsworth Hamann, The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844 (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2022).
Claudia Hopkins named 2022 Jonathan Brown Award Winner
Claudia Hopkins has been named the 2022 recipient of SIGA’s inaugural Jonathan Brown Award for her edited book Romantic Spain: David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil (Madrid: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2021). Honorable mention goes to Rosario I. Granados, ed., Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America (Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2022).
Aaron Hyman: Honorable Mention for Gordan Prize
Aaron Hyman’s book Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Getty Publications, 2021) has been awarded honorable mention by the Renaissance Society of America for its 2023 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, an annual award for the best book in Renaissance studies.
Olga Bush appointed Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks
Olga Bush (Vassar College) was appointed a Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks for the 2023-2024 academic year to support research on her project titled “Extraction and Construction: The Ecology and Landscape Architecture of Madīnat al-Zahrā’ (Córdoba) in the Pan-Mediterranean Medieval Context” that forms a part of her monograph in progress at the intersection of environmental studies and medieval Muslim visual culture.
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend granted Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Lisbon
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend has been granted a Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Lisbon for her work, publications, and research in promoting Portuguese art, culture, and history for 40 years.
Carmen Ripollés: Flores (y frutos) de otros mundos
Carmen Ripollés has published a thematic itinerary about the collections of the Banco de España entitled “Flores (y frutos) de otros mundos.”
Jesse Locker: La suavidad de Artemisa
Jesse Locker has recently published “’La suavidad de Artemisa’: reflexiones sobre la recepción de Artemisia Gentileschi en España” Boletín del Museo del Prado 58 (Fall 2022). An English translation of the article text, without illustrations, is accessible here.
Edward J. Sullivan honored at CAA's Distinguished Scholar Session
Edward J. Sullivan was chosen as the focus of this year’s Distinguished Scholar Session at the 111th CAA Annual Conference for his transformative work in the field of art history, especially in relation to the study and elevation of Latin American and Caribbean, Latina/o/x art and artists, and for the advancement of women and the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities in these regions.