SIGA Briefs
Tracing Jewish Histories Symposium
The Courtauld and Case Western Reserve University will jointly host the two-day symposium Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture in London on May 19-20, 2025. Find the program and free registration on the event’s website.
Mark McDonald: Pedro de Villafranca. Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV
Mark McDonald (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) has published Pedro de Villafranca: Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV (CEEH, 2025).
Anthony Meyer Receives ALAA Dissertation Award
Anthony Meyer received the 2025 Biennial Dissertation Award from the Association for Latin American Art in February for his dissertation The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds.
Holly Trusted Appointed Center for Spain in America Fellow at the Clark
Holly Trusted has been appointed a Center for Spain in America Fellow at the Clark (January-June, 2025). She is working on a new book about the Spanish baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán (1652-1706) along with the great Roldán expert, the Australian scholar Cathy Hall. Together, they are planning a catalogue of this important sculptor’s works in both wood and terracotta. Trusted and Hall recently completed a tour of museums on the East Coast that house key works by Luisa, where they were warmly welcomed by curators and conservators alike.
Zurbarán (super)natural
The exhibition Zurbarán (super)natural has recently opened at the MNAC in Barcelona and runs until June 29, 2025.
Proposals for the SIGA-sponsored panel at CAA 2026
Members interested in chairing the SIGA-sponsored panel at the CAA 2026 Annual Conference in Chicago (February 18–21, 2026) may submit their proposals for a panel addressing any aspect of the arts, architecture, and visual cultures of the Iberian world (encompassing Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific) by April 14, 2025.
Amanda Wunder is a co-winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize
Amanda Wunder’s most recent publication, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (Yale University Press), is the co-winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize awarded by the Renaissance Society of America.
Cloe Cavero de Carondelet Awarded a RSA-Samuel H. Kress Research Fellowship
Cloe Cavero de Carondelet has been awarded a 2025 RSA-Samuel H. Kress Research Fellowship in Renaissance Art History for her book project, The Renaissance of Child Martyrs in the Early Modern Spanish World.