SIGA briefs
Hugo Miguel Crespo and Annemarie Jordan Gschwend: The "Pangolin Fan"
Hugo Miguel Crespo and Annemarie Jordan Gschwend have published The “Pangolin Fan”. An Imperial Ivory Fan from Ceylon. Artistic Confluence and Global Gift Exchange between Sri Lanka and Renaissance Portugal (Montevideo, Uruguay: Jaime Eguiguren, June 2022).
Reva Wolf: "The Interconnection of Satire and Censorship in Goya's Prints and Drawings"
An essay by Reva Wolf, “The Interconnections of Satire and Censorship in Goya’s Prints and Drawings,” is included in the interdisciplinary volume Changing Satire: Transformations and Continuities in Europe, 1600-1830, edited by Cecilia Rosengren, Per Sivefors, and Rikard Wingård, just published by Manchester University Press.
Jesús Escobar: "Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy"
Jesús Escobar has published Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy (Penn State U Press, 2022). Fernando Marías’ advance review calls the work “a new and original book on Spanish urban history and architecture, focused on the court and capital town in a way never addressed by Spanish historians.”
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.
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.
Shannon Wearing (ed.): Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts
Shannon Wearing has co-edited the newly published volume Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts, edited by Joseph Salvatore Ackley and Shannon L. Wearing (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022).