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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>OF INTEREST FROM THE GETTY
MUSEUM, PASADENA, CA:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>To coincide with our
exhibition La Roldana’s Royal Commission: The Making of Polychrome
Sculpture (opening Feb 17, 2009), I am organizing a study day focusing on
Golden Age Seville. I am hoping that you can pass on information about this
study day to an colleagues who either might be interested in participating
(giving a paper) or attending.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The study day will open with
a session with the objects looking at artists’ materials, spices and
trade in the seventeenth century. The next session will look at <st1:City
w:st="on">Seville</st1:City>’s influence to the world and will feature
the influence of Murillo in the <st1:place w:st="on">New World</st1:place>.
The next panel will look at the collaboration and competition amongst artists
and literati in Golden Age Seville. Another panel will look at the world of
women in <st1:City w:st="on">Seville</st1:City>, Mary Elizabeth Perry will
visit the area of gender in <st1:City w:st="on">Seville</st1:City> and another
paper will at Luisa Roldan and the traing of female artists in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Seville</st1:place></st1:City> workshops. The day will close with a
keynote given by Richard Kagan on Crisis and Decline inSeville. Each panel
will feature a group of scholars from different displines (art history,
history, literature, science, or geography.) This study day promises to be a
spectacular.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>As mentioned please pass on
this info to anyone who you might think should participate or would like to
attend. For further info or to register, please contactmalvarez@getty.edu. To
give a paper, please send an abstract no later than Nov. 1 to malvarez@getty.edu<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Golden Age <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Seville</st1:place></st1:City> Study Day<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Tuesday, February 24, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The J. Paul Getty Museum<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Museum Lecture Hall<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>11:00pm-7pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Spanish Royal Sculptor Luisa
Roldán dominated the world of polychrome sculpture in late 17th-century <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>. This study
day seeks to better understand how she as both an artist and woman worked in
the context of late 17th-century <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seville</st1:place></st1:City>
and to understand how her work fit into the cultural and religious needs of
late Baroque Seville. The study day also seeks to examine <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Seville</st1:place></st1:City> as one the great early modern
European cities. As the gateway to colonial <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
and cornerstone of the Spanish Empire, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seville</st1:place></st1:City>
was one of the largest urban centers in Baroque Europe. This study day will
also allow us to examine the relationships held between painters such as Juan
de Valdés Leal, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and Luisa Roldán</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>—</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and
by extension the unique relationship between sculpture and painting in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seville</st1:place></st1:City>. Not limited to
the field of art history, this study day will present scholarship from a range
of traditional disciplines (primarily but not exclusively history, literature,
and the history of art) bringing together the insights of specialists who share
an interest in either seventeenth-century art or Golden Age Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Participants include: Mary
Elizabeth Perry, Occidental; Jon Seydl, Cleveland Museum of Art; Jesus Escobar,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Northwestern</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>; and Sofía Sanabrais, LACMA.
A keynote lecture at 6:00pm, by noted historian Richard Kagan from The John's <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, concludes the day.
Reception to follow. For further information, to participate or to register,
please contact, Maite Alvarez, malvarez@getty.edu<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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