Holly Trusted and Xavier Bray, ‘Spanish Polychromed Sculptures and their Relationship to Easel Paintings’

Xavier Bray and Holly Trusted will be discussing Spanish polychromed sculptures, how they relate to easel paintings, some of the techniques involved, attitudes to such sculptures outside Spain, and why they are so central to the history of art.

Biographies

Dr Holly Trusted (formerly known as Marjorie Trusted) was a founder member and is now Honorary President of ARTES. She was Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum for over 30 years, and has lectured and published extensively on Spanish sculpture. She is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of Luisa Roldán with Catherine Hall-van den Elsen.

Dr Xavier Bray is an art historian specialising in Spanish art and Director of The Wallace Collection, London. He completed his PhD in 1999 at Trinity College, Dublin, on Goya as a painter of religious imagery. He was Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao, as well as Assistant Curator at the National Gallery. He has curated a wide range of exhibitions including El Greco, Velazquez, The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700, Murillo & Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship, Goya: The Portraits and Ribera: The Art of Violence. Since joining the Wallace Collection he has overseen and co-curated several exhibitions including Richard Wallace: The Collector, Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads and Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company with the writer William Dalrymple. He most recently curated an exhibition at the Wallace Collection entitled Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney, which ran from 29th March to 15th October 2023.

The event is part of the Research Seminar Series organised by Durham University's Zurbarán Centre with the ARTES Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and the Embassy of Spain in London.

The series provides an open forum for engaging with innovative research and exhibition projects relating to the visual arts in the Hispanic world.

The sessions usually take place on Wednesdays, 6.00-7.00 pm (UK time). 

https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/91739926026?pwd=bXpiN1JYUTNFTHZ1TlF5TmsvY3NXQT09

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