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.

“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 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”.

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.

With the aim of contributing to strengthen the conscience of professional collective of art historians, CAEM is now an institutional partner to APROHA, Spanish Professional Association of Art Historians

As a university service dedicated to the professional practice of Art History, we subscribe and support the struggle led by this association in favour of the professional interests of graduates of this noble, attractive and yet not always well considered discipline.
A collaboration agreement between the two institutions is currently under preparation and we hope it will benefit the professionals of art history.

Eloy Martínez Lanzas, the largest representative of the collecting of the miniature in the Spanish area, moves to Lleida to meet in person the Center d’Art d’Epoca Moderna

Mr. Martínez Lanzas, who has been collaborating with the CAEM for a few months, has decided to officially participate in our full team of advisors, after meeting in person our center.
After a pleasant morning and a tour of all our facilities, he showed great satisfaction of being able to join as part of the team of advisors of a center of this prestige, with first-rate technical and human infrastructures.

Velázquez’s book centered the interview with professor Ximo Company, within the program “Efecto Mariposa” of Radio Uruguay, conducted by journalist Daina Rodríguez and writer Alberto Gallo. The production was carried out by Carolina Molla. It took place on Tuesday, August 14, 2018

It was a completely relaxed interview that delved into the vital need to contemplate painting slowly, without haste and abandoning the backpack of what one believes to know, that is, devoid of that excessive erudition that dries up and sterilizes the perceptive and cognitive capacity of the human being. Actually, if the human creature really wants to sense, intuit and taste what the beatific state of transcendence should be like, we should learn to listen to Bach, look at Velázquez and read Jacques Philipe. That attempt of excursion to the aforementioned beatific state -which we long for the living- is the added value of the “pleasure of seeing paint”.

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