🌊🔥💨⛰️ CFP: The Senses and the Elements How did water, fire, air, and earth shape medieval encounters with the holy? This edited volume explores the four elements as sensorial triggers in religious contexts across the Mediterranean.

✨ New Exhibition ✨ Raimundo de Madrazo 🗓️September 19th, 2025 -January 18th, 2026 📍Recoletos Hall Paseo Recoletos 23, 28004 Madrid Discover the cosmopolitan world of Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841–1920)—one of the most celebrated Spanish painters of the 19th century.

🗨️In Conversation: Fault Lines — Mapping Absence🗨️ 🗓️September 25, 2025 📍Pittsburgh, PA

✨ New Release ✨ The first English-language monograph on Portuguese painter Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684) has just been published by Carmen Ripollés! 🎉 (1/5)

✨ Now Accepting Applications ✨ The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art invites scholars to apply for its Visiting Senior Fellowships—two-month residencies designed to support advanced research in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts. (1/5)

✨ Upcoming AGENART Seminar ✨ On September 18, 2025 (special time: 16:30), art historian Peter Cherry (Trinity College, Dublin) will present: “Velázquez and Royal Women.”

✨ New Exhibitions at the Meadows Museum ✨ From September 14, 2025–January 11, 2026, the Meadows presents two incredible photography exhibitions—both offering fresh perspectives on Mexico. (1/5)

✨ Call for Papers ✨ AGENCIES AND TEMPORALITIES IN COMPLEX ARTEFACTS FROM RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES (C. 1000–1600) What if medieval artefacts weren’t “finished” objects, but living works in progress? (1/6)

✨ Art with an Expert: The Art of Dress in Baroque Spain ✨ 📅 Sunday, September 14 | 🕒 3 p.m. 📍 Part of Blanton All Day: Going Places

📢 Call for Papers! ⚱️Funerary Art, Memory, and Contexts in Medieval Iberia: Bishops and Cathedrals 🪦 (1/5)

📢 Call for Papers! ✨ Mexico y España. Cinco siglos de arquitectura para una historia en común brings together the 24th Forum of History and Criticism of Modern Architecture and the 5th international conference of the Asociación de historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo (AhAU). (1/4)

(1/2) 🌍✨ LAST CHANCE! ✨🌍 SIGA is sponsoring a panel at CAA 2026 on the unstable, ambitious, and unpredictable histories of early modern architecture in the Iberian world. ⏳Deadline: Aug 29!

(1/4) ✨ Spirit & Splendor ✨ August 24, 2025 – February 1, 2026 The Blanton Museum of Art presents Spirit & Splendor: Highlights from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library.

🌍✨ Call for Papers! ✨🌍 SIGA is excited to sponsor a panel at CAA 2026 that explores the ambitious, adaptive, and at times unstable histories of early modern architecture in the Iberian world. (1/6)

📢✨ Call for Papers ✨📢 How did race shape the artistic & built environment of the 18th-century Atlantic world? 🌍🎨🏛️ (1/6)

📢 ASPHS Best Dissertation Prize 2025 📢 The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) invites submissions for its Best Dissertation Prize in Iberian Historical Studies. (1/6)

📢 Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 61 (2026) The peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites original research centered on works of art in The Met’s collection. (1/6)

1/ 📜 CFP: ASPHS-Sponsored Panels at Kalamazoo 2026 📜 The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies is calling for papers for four exciting sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI, May 2026). Two sessions are hybrid — so you can present from anywhere!

✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨ Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination. (1/4)

🌍✨ Call for Papers! ✨🌍 SIGA is excited to sponsor a panel at CAA 2026 that explores the ambitious, adaptive, and at times unstable histories of early modern architecture in the Iberian world. (1/7)

1/📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 🎨👑 Women in Action: Women’s Artistic Practices in the Hispanic Middle Ages 📍 Madrid | 🗓️ Nov 12–14, 2025 🔗https://siga.spainculture.us/news/opportunities/conferences/women-in-action-womens-artistic-practices-in-the-hispanic-middle-ages/ 🧵👇

📢 Now on view @cmoa: Fault Lines: Art, Imperialism, and the Atlantic World 🗓 July 12, 2025 – Jan 25, 2026 What happens when the boundaries of art history are redrawn along the routes of empire? #AtlanticWorld #EarlyModernArt 1/4

📢 CFP: AI + Early Modern Art/Architecture 🗓 Deadline: August 6, 2025 Panel at RSA 2026 (San Francisco, Feb 19–21) #RSA2026 #CFP #AIandArt 🔗 Details: siga.spainculture.us/news/opportu... (1/5)

1/ 🧵CFP – RSA 2026, San Francisco 📣 Africans on the Move: Forms of Mobility in Africa and its Diaspora 📅 Deadline: August 3 🔗 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

1/7 📢 CFP: Sacred and Profane Touch: Tactile Experience in Renaissance Europe Touch shaped the sacred, the social, and the political in Renaissance Europe. At RSA 2026 in San Francisco, we’ll explore how tactile experience structured meaning in early modern life. 🧵

🧙‍♀️✨ Call for Papers! ✨🧙‍♂️ RSA 2026: Magic, Witchcraft & Print Culture 📍 San Francisco | 🗓️ Feb 19–21, 2026 📬 Deadline: Aug 1, 2025 How did early modern print shape ideas about magic & the occult? 🧵(1/6)

🌎🖼️ Call for Papers! 🖼️🌎 Art, Ecology & Empire in the Iberian World RSA 2026 #CFP #ArtHistory #EarlyModern #IberianWorld 1/5

🎭✨ Call for Papers! ✨🎶 Two exciting panels seek contributions on race, performance, and identity in the early modern world. Explore how music, theater, and dance shaped and reflected race and power. (1/4)

🌍✨ Call for Papers! ✨🌍 SIGA is excited to sponsor a panel at CAA 2026 that explores the ambitious, adaptive, and at times unstable histories of early modern architecture in the Iberian world. (1/6)

✨📜 Call for Papers! 📜✨ SIGA is thrilled to share three CFPs exploring performance, music, and festivity in the early modern world, with special attention to the Hispanic and Spanish colonial contexts. 🏰🎶🤹‍♀️ (1/7)

✨📜 Call for Papers! 📜✨ We’re thrilled to share three panels exploring the history of emotions in the early modern world. (1/5)

✨📜 Call for Papers! 📜✨ Slavery and Material Culture in Early Modern Maritime Asia (1/5)

✨📜 Call for Papers! 📜✨ Women Printmakers in the Early Modern World A session sponsored by APS & Print Quarterly (1/6)

✨ Pedro Orrente. An Itinerant Artist in Golden Age Spain ✨ 📍 Museu de Belles Arts de València 🗓 July 10 – October 12, 2025 🎉 Official opening: Thursday, July 10 at 18:00 h (1/4)

✨ Arte y Misericordia: La Santa Caridad de Sevilla ✨ 📍 Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla 🗓 July 1, 2025 – June 7, 2026 (1/4)

🌟✍️ Opportunity Alert for Early Career Scholars! ✍️🌟 The Burlington Magazine and the University of Cambridge have launched a new annual prize to inspire innovative object-based scholarship! 🏺📜 (1/5)

📣 Call for Book Chapters! 🌀 Latin American Sensorium | Edited by Cristóbal F. Barria Bignotti To be published in Routledge’s Sensory Studies series. (1/4)

📣✨ Call for Papers! ✨📣 RSA 2026 • San Francisco Deadline: August 1, 2025 We’re excited to share three dynamic CFPs centering the early modern Iberian and Hispanic worlds—across geographies, media, and lived experiences. 🧵(1/7)

🎨✨ CFP: Jews and the Arts: Early Modern Perspectives ✨🎭 RSA 2026 • San Francisco Jewish artists, performers, and makers actively shaped early modern visual, musical, and theatrical cultures—while navigating complex legal, social, and professional worlds. (1/3)

📝✨ CFP: Papering Devotion: Creating and Engaging with Sacred Images through Paper and Parchment in the Early Modern World 🔍 This session at RSA shifts the focus from iconography to material engagement—what can paper and parchment tell us about lived devotion? (1/5)

🌍✨ Calling all scholars of Iberian, Islamic, and Global Renaissance Art! 📣 SIGA is thrilled to announce THREE exciting Calls for Papers for RSA 2026 in San Francisco! (1/5)

🎨📣 Calling all advanced graduate students studying the visual culture of Central America! Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, Volume XVII is now accepting submissions! (1/5)

🖼️ Call for Session Proposals: APS at RSA 2026 🖼️ The Association of Print Scholars is accepting proposals for sponsored sessions at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, February 19–21, 2026! (1/4)

🗓️ Mark your calendars! 🎓 Empire of Role Models? Championing and Challenging Global Ideals in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds A two-day symposium exploring how communities in the Iberian worlds shaped and challenged global ideals. (1/5)

🕊️ So far, so close: Guadalupe of Mexico in Spain 📍 Museo del Prado | Jun 10 – Sep 14, 2025 Explore the transatlantic journey of the Virgin of Guadalupe this summer in Madrid. (1/5)

📣 Opportunity Alert: 2025–2026 Curatorial Research Fellowship at the Goya Research Center 🖼️ (1/6)

📢 This is the last post (for now) in the Meet the SIGA Board Series— and hey, it’s me! 👋 I’m Laura Martin, SIGA’s Social Media Editor and a Ph.D. student in Art History at Southern Methodist University. When I’m not posting here, I’m researching religious images of the Hispanic world. 🎨📱 (1/6)

📣 Call for Contributions! (1/6) Are you researching race, colonialism, or visual/material culture in the early modern Iberian world? This is for you. #CallForPapers #GlobalIberia #ArtHistory

📢 Meet the SIGA Board! (1/4) We’re excited to introduce Patricia Zalamea, SIGA’s Prize Committee Chair and Associate Professor of Art History at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia! 🎓🏛️ #SpanishGlobalArt #IberianArt #ArtHistory

🏛️ Call for Papers: Cultural Entanglements – European and Ibero-American Baroque Architecture 🏛️ Are you working on the transatlantic Baroque? We invite you to submit a paper for the 2026 SAH Conference in Mexico City! (1/4)