Tuesday 4 November at 18:00 (UK time). Julia Vázquez, ‘Velázquez, Painter & Curator’.

This book is the first to address the curatorial career of Diego Velázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Velázquez played in overseeing the display of the Habsburg art collection, then the richest in the western world, and the role, in turn, that this practice played in his creative trajectory between his arrival at the Spanish court in 1623 and his death in 1660. This book thus recasts Velázquez’s career as an episode in the history of the curator. Further details are given here: Velázquez, Painter & Curator | Brill

Julia Vázquez received a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University in 2020. She has held internships and fellowships at the Musée du Louvre, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, the Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, where she was contributing curator to ‘Marisol: A Retrospective’. She is currently Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for ‘Marcel Duchamp’, a retrospective exhibition co-organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.