The Modern Art Center signs a collaboration agreement with the Lázaro Galdino Museum of Madrid
The agreement signed between the Madrid art gallery and the CAEM will serve to better understand some of the pieces preserved in one of the most important museums of the Spanish capital.
The Arte de Época Moderna centre and the Lázaro Galdiano Museum have signed a collaboration agreement, in order to join efforts to unravel all the secrets of part of the Madrid collection.
At the moment, it is working on three beautiful pieces, among which one of the undisputed jewels of the Museum: its beautiful adolescent Salvador, whose last attribution would place it as a work by the brush of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, who was a disciple of Leonardo da Vinci himself.
The scientific-technical and historical-artistic research is being carried out side by side with the members of the museum, and its purpose is a mutual enrichment, whose sole aim is to get to know better part of one of the best collections of private origin in Spain.
The fascinating story of the painter Domingo de Carrión
Barrón García and Aramuru-Zabala Higuera bring us a splendid research in their latest work.
Ediciones Trea has just published the book Portraits of the Palace of Soñanes in Vallacarriedo. Works by Domingo de Carrión, collaborator of Diego Velázquez, a splendid work by Aurelio Á. Barrón García and Miguel Ángel Aramburu-Zabala Higuera.
In this work, the authors dusted off the name of Domingo de Carrión, a great baroque painter unjustly largely unknown, who was, apparently, one of Velázquez’s assistants in the execution of some of the equestrian portraits of the Salón de Reinos of the Palacio del Buen Retiro in Madrid.
Through a set of works that adorned the Cantabrian palace of Soñanes de Villacarriedo, the authors of this magnificent work present a great portraitist, who learned from Spain’s most exquisite brush, but who then evolved towards a plastic world of its own.
Undoubtedly, this work has done justice to an artist sadly forgotten, but we have no doubt, this investigation might be the onset for new works that gradually give Domingo de Carrión the recognition historiography owes him.
The Center d’Art d’Epoca Moderna (CAEM) of the University of Lleida adds to its team Dr. Carmen Garrido, Director Emeritus of the Technical Cabinet of the National Prado Museum
Carmen Garrido will hold the position of Scientific Director of Painting Studies, and will work closely with the Director of CAEM and the rest of the researchers in attributive tasks.
Carmen Garrido will hold the position of Scientific Director of Painting Studies, and will work closely with the Director of CAEM and the rest of the researchers in attributive tasks.
Dr. Garrido is one of the world’s leading specialists in El Greco, Velázquez and Goya, and knows well the spectacular Spanish Painting of the Golden Age.
Her presence strengthens the seriousness and the increasingly recognized scientific rigor of the analytical method put into practice at the CAEM, a method which this exceptional world expert in painting fully supports.
The presence at the CAEM of Dr. Garrido is a privilege that will greatly help her researchers to take their professional, analytical, perceptive and attributive skills in the field of unpublished works of art to the next level.
The CAEM consolidates its presence, as well, as the most rigorous and complete analytical and attributive center of works of art in Spain.
Carmen Garrido is a doctor in History of Art from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Curator of the entity Cuerpo Facultativo de Museos. Her specialty is the study (always first-hand) of the creative, technical, material, formal and stylistic painting process of the great masters. She has examined works from the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the University of Louvain, the Institute of Conservation and Restoration in Madrid, and especially the pictorial collections of the Prado Museum.
CAEM attributes a painting to Joaquim Sunyer
CAEM’s staff has determined that “Nu femení assegut” (“Seated female nude”), which arrived at the centre’s facilities at the end of 2018, belongs to the Sitges native painter Joaquim Sunyer (1874-1956).
This work shows a young, delicate girl, a very intimate portrait that can be considered an alternative offering from its author, compared to the showiness of the painter’s most well-known nudes – and, at the same time, displaying his most defining traits and features.
Sunyer, one of the main representatives of the Noucentisme movement, dedicated a big part of his work to the feminine nude, a topic that shows his progression as a painter since his academic beginnings, going through the experimentation with Post-Impressionism during his life in Paris. “Seated female nude” is not only a work of an extraordinary sensitivity, but a very important piece that helps the viewer to understand the evolution and the career of one of Sunyer’s favourite topics, which has helped to reassert his imprint in painting.
CAEM concludes the restoration of a XVIIth century painting
“Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Sebastian”, made by an artist from an italian school, following Correggio’s art, suffered from a severe deterioration at its arrival in the lab.
The CAEM in the international congress ESRARC 2019
The CAEM presents its work methodology and innovation in the study of works of art at the 11th international congress “European Symposium on Religious Art, Restoration and Conservation”.
CAEM’s scientists collaborate in an international seminar about new non-invasive imaging technologies on artworks
In this respect, under the title of L’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi: indagini sulla pittura in Italia tra Rinascimento e Barocco, several centers who work on the study and diagnosis of Cultural Heritage, will present unpublished research
Ximo Company, UdL profesor, ends “The Beauty of Humanism” with a presentation about the sevillian genius.
Ximo Company has put an end to “The Beauty of Humanism”, a series of presentations hosted by CaixaForum Lleida and focused not only on Humanism itself, but also its influence beyond Italy and its presence on our present life, with a presentation dedicates to the brillant works by Diego Velázquez.
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