Lectures
Artifice and Invention: Displaying Art of the Spanish Americas
Past event
Rosario I. Granados, associate curator of art of the Spanish Americas at the Blanton Museum of Art, presents her lecture in conjunction with the exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire.
From Moctezuma to Charles the Fifth: A glimpse into the Cultural Biography of an Ocelot-Hide Shield
Past event
In this hybrid lecture, Laura Filloy Nadal, associate curator of Ancient American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will discuss the Cuexio chimalli of Chapultepec.
Material Wonder and Hemispheric Identities: Silver and Mahogany in the Spanish Empire
Past event
In this online lecture, Harvard Art Museums Associate Curator of American Art Horace D. Ballard will discuss the ideas and objects featured in the special exhibition From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire.
The Spanish Civil War Memory Project: The Making of a Human Rights Digital Archive
Past event
In this lecture, part of the Meadows Museum’s Further Afield series, Luis Martín-Cabrera (University of California San Diego) discusses the making of the Spanish Civil War Memory Project as a contemporary human rights digital archive.
The Ethiopian at the Door: Fantasy, Literality, and Race in ‘Cantigas de Santa Maria’
Past event
Pamela Patton (Princeton University) will give a Zoom lecture on race in the Cantigas de Santa María as part of Montclair State University’s Medieval and Early Modern Seminar Series.
Iberian Art in a Global Context. A Tribute to Jonathan Brown
Past event
SIGA’s sponsored panel at the 111th annual CAA conference pays tribute to the late Jonathan Brown.
“Castilla del Oro” and the Regional Evolution and Dissemination of Ancient Indigenous Metallurgic Iconography in the Isthmo-Colombian Area
Past event
This in-person and virtual lecture will be given by Orlando Hernández Ying as part of NYU’s Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture Series.
Velázquez: Painting and the King
Past event
In this talk, Giles Knox examines the development of Velázquez’s spectacularly free brushwork, as well as the possible role played by the king in encouraging the artist along this extraordinary path.