Journée d’études : “El Greco to Goya : Spanish Masterpieces from The Bowes Museum”.

Francisco de Goya, Intérieur d’une prison, 1793–1794, huile sur toile, County Durham, The Bowes Museum.

Type : journée d’études.
Date : 25 novembre 2017.
Lieu : The Wallace Collection, Londres.

This major international, one-day symposium on Spanish painting, accompanies the exhibition El Greco to Goya: Spanish Masterpieces from The Bowes Museum. The aim of the symposium is to explore in greater depth the remarkable collection of Spanish paintings on loan from The Bowes, our regional partner, which is outstanding in both its quality and range. Speakers include Xavier Bray, Peter Cherry, Edward Payne, María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Bernadette Petti, Juliet Wilson Bareau, and Véronique Gerard Powell. Tickets are £25 (£10 for students) and can be purchased by following this link.

Programme

9:30  Registration

9:50  Welcome

10:00  Morning Session
• Bernadette Petti (Assistant Curator of Fine Art, The Bowes Museum), An Overview of Four Centuries of Spanish Art in The Bowes Museum
• Véronique Gerard-Powell (Senior lecturer, University of Paris, Sorbonne), A Reluctant Purchase: El Greco’s Tears of St Peter
• Peter Cherry (Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin), Foreign Food: Spanish Still Life in the British Isles
• María Cruz de Carlos Varona (Lecturer, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Claudio Coello’s Portrait of Mariana of Austria

1:00  Lunch Break

2:00  Afternoon Session
• Xavier Bray (Director, The Wallace Collection), Goya and Religion: Early Works for the Spanish Church
• Juliet Wilson-Bareau (Independent Academic), Goya’s Prisons: Of the State, of the Church, and of the Mind
• Edward Payne (Head Curator: Spanish Art, The Auckland Project), A Museum in the Making: The Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland

4:30  Close