Events from the 01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025 Reset
Zurbarán Centre / Artes Lecture Online on Zoom at 18:00 (UK time) on 29 January Goya's Caprichos in Nineteenth-Century France: Politics of the Grotesque
29 January 2025
6:00 PM - 7:01 PM
Online
The Zurbarán Centre is looking forward to celebrating the inaugural publications in ‘The Spanish Gallery Collection Studies’ series, produced by the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH) in Madrid. This series commences with four volumes authored by distinguished experts on Spanish art, who conducted their research during a CEEH-funded fellowship at the Zurbarán Centre between 2021 and 2023.
05 February 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Petit Palais is presenting the first French retrospective ever devoted to Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652), the terrible heir to Caravaggio, whom his contemporaries considered ‘darker and more ferocious’ than the great Italian master. Of Spanish origin, he spent his entire career in Italy, first in Rome and then in Naples.
25 February 2025
Online event
José María Velasco (1840–1912) emerged as Mexico’s leading landscape painter during the late nineteenth century as his country underwent sweeping social and industrial change. He was renowned for his monumental depictions of the area surrounding Mexico City, a high-altitude basin ringed by volcanoes called the Valley of Mexico.
11 March 2025
Online Event Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89701734876?pwd=AOggZOF5emega1MAmo6a4TmVT0aKAF.1
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of ‘goods’ from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial ‘opening up’ of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global.
19 March 2025
Online- link tbc