[Comedias] Golden Age @ the Getty

[Vidler, L. DR DFL]

OF INTEREST FROM THE GETTY MUSEUM, PASADENA, CA:

 

 

To coincide with our exhibition La Roldana's Royal Commission:  The Making of Polychrome Sculpture (opening Feb 17,  2009), I am organizing a study day focusing on Golden Age Seville.  I am hoping that you can pass on information about this study day to an colleagues who either might be interested in participating (giving a paper) or attending.

 

 

The study day will open with a session with the objects looking at artists' materials, spices and trade in the seventeenth century.  The next session will look at Seville's influence to the world and will feature the influence of Murillo in the New World.  The next panel will look at the collaboration and competition amongst artists and literati in Golden Age Seville.  Another panel will look at the world of women in Seville, Mary Elizabeth Perry will visit the area of gender in Seville and another paper will at Luisa Roldan and the traing of female artists in Seville workshops.  The day will close with a keynote given by Richard Kagan on Crisis and Decline inSeville.  Each panel will feature a group of scholars from different displines (art history, history, literature, science, or geography.) This study day promises to be a spectacular.

 

 

As mentioned please pass on this info to anyone who you might think should participate or would like to attend.  For further info or to register, please contactmalvarez at getty.edu.  To give a paper, please send an abstract no later than Nov. 1 to malvarez at getty.edu

 

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Golden Age Seville Study Day

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Museum Lecture Hall

11:00pm-7pm

 

 

Spanish Royal Sculptor Luisa Roldán dominated the world of polychrome sculpture in late 17th-century Spain.  This study day seeks to better understand how she as both an artist and woman worked in the context of late 17th-century Seville and to understand how her work fit into the cultural and religious needs of late Baroque Seville.  The study day also seeks to examine Seville as one the great early modern European cities.  As the gateway to colonial America and cornerstone of the Spanish Empire, Seville was one of the largest urban centers in Baroque Europe.  This study day will also allow us to examine the relationships held between painters such as Juan de Valdés Leal, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and Luisa Roldán-and by extension the unique relationship between sculpture and painting in Seville.  Not limited to the field of art history, this study day will present scholarship from a range of traditional disciplines (primarily but not exclusively history, literature, and the history of art) bringing together the insights of specialists who share an interest in either seventeenth-century art or Golden Age Spain.

 

 

Participants include:  Mary Elizabeth Perry, Occidental; Jon Seydl, Cleveland Museum of Art; Jesus Escobar, Northwestern University; and Sofía Sanabrais, LACMA.  A keynote lecture at 6:00pm, by noted historian Richard Kagan from The John's Hopkins University, concludes the day.  Reception to follow.  For further information, to participate or to register, please contact, Maite Alvarez, malvarez at getty.edu

 

 

 

Laura L. Vidler, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of  Spanish

Dept. of Foreign Languages

United States Military Academy

West Point, NY  10996

845-938-3748

laura.vidler at usma.edu <mailto:laura.vidler at usma.edu> 

 

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