Events from the 01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025 Reset
José María Velasco (1840–1912) emerged as Mexico’s leading landscape painter during the late nineteenth century as his country underwent sweeping social and industrial change. He was renowned for his monumental depictions of the area surrounding Mexico City, a high-altitude basin ringed by volcanoes called the Valley of Mexico.
11 March 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online Event Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89701734876?pwd=AOggZOF5emega1MAmo6a4TmVT0aKAF.1
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of ‘goods’ from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial ‘opening up’ of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global.
19 March 2025
Online- link tbc
Join us on Zoom for our online exhibition for Estrella de Diego, ‘Why Are Women Painters So Often Surrealist? The Case of Maruja Mallo’.
29 October 2025
Online: Zoom Meeting (Link in description)
Join us online via Zoom for Julia Vázquez, ‘Velázquez, Painter & Curator’.
04 November 2025
Online via Zoom (link in the description)
Join us online via Zoom for Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, ‘Transferring Saint Marina the Monk to the Iberian Peninsula: Illuminations, Statues, and Paintings’.
11 November 2025
Online via Zoom, link in description.
Jamie Forde will provide a talk on Silk in Colonial Mexican Churches—Transoceanic Ecologies and Indigenous Ontologies. This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom, joining information will below the event blurb.
02 December 2025
Online via Zoom (joining link at the bottom of the blurb)
Casilda Ybarra Satrústegui (Fundación MAPFRE), Anders Zorn and Spain
09 December 2025
Online event via Zoom (link in the description)
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