SIGA briefs
Reva Wolf: The Victim as Martyr
Reva Wolf recently published the essay “The Victim as Martyr: The Black Legend and Eighteenth-Century Images of Inquisition Punishments, from Picart to Coustos to Goya” in The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century. The book is part of the series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and is edited by Catherine Jaffe and Karen Stolley. The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) held a panel about the book at its 2024 conference, in Toronto, at which Reva and five other contributors to the book spoke.
Amanda Wunder: Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez
Amanda Wunder has published Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (Yale University Press, 2024). The book will be available in the U.S. on March 26th. Yale University Press is offering a 30% discount on orders placed via their website: enter code SFAOV when checking out. The book has been simultaneously released in Spanish as La moda española en la época de Velázquez: Un sastre en la corte de Felipe IV (Ediciones El Viso, 2023).
Carmen Ripollés: Forjando una identidad
Carmen Ripollés has published the article “Forjando una identidad: Autoimagen y Conciencia Artística en los primeros grabados de Josefa de Óbidos.” Anuario del Departamento de Historia y Teoría del Arte, 35 (2023): 65-88.
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.