SIGA briefs

4/27/2023 People

Therese Martin: Medieval Treasuries

Therese Martin has launched a new webpage for her research projects. Entitled Medieval Treasuries: Iberia and Beyond, it includes links to all related publications, many of which are available in open access.

4/20/2023 People

Stella Nair awarded National Humanities Center Fellowship

Stella Nair (UCLA) has been appointed a fellow of the National Humanities Center for 2023–24.

4/20/2023 Award

Michael Schreffler awarded Spiro Kostof Book Award

Michael Schreffler (University of Notre Dame) has been awarded the 2023 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City (Yale University Press, 2020).

4/18/2023 People

Olga Bush delivers Madīnat al-Zahrā lecture

Olga Bush (Vassar College) has delivered a lecture, titled, “Madīnat al-Zahrā’: The Ecology and Landscape Architecture of the caliphal city,” in the Department of Art at Columbia University.

4/15/2023 People

Angel Jiang curates Tradition and Transformation exhibition

Angel Jiang, Curator of Collections & Study Room Initiatives at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, has curated Tradition and Transformation: Colonial New Spain and Contemporary Hispanic America at the UNM Art Museum (March 30-September 30). This permanent collection exhibition features historic colonial Spanish paintings, retablos, and bultos alongside prints and photographs by contemporary Hispanic artists who preserve and transform this tradition in modern mediums.

4/5/2023 Publication

Luis Martín-Estudillo: Goya and the Mystery of Reading

Luis Martín-Estudillo has published Goya and the Mystery of Reading (Vanderbilt University Press, 2023). The book has been simultaneously released in a Spanish edition entitled Goya o el misterio de la lectura (Cátedra, 2023).

3/23/2023 People

María Lumbreras awarded Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship

María Lumbreras has been awarded a 2023 Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art to support work on her book manuscript The Facture of Evidence: Replication and the Past in Early Modern Iberia.

3/20/2023 Publication

Tara Zanardi: Intimate Interiors

Tara Zanardi has published Intimate Interiors: Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir (Bloomsbury, 2023), co-edited with Christopher M.S. Johns.