NEWS

David Teniers III: a copper from 1677 in the Real Academia de San Fernando and another, possibly from the same series, in the Epiarte collection.

Recently, we have had news about the donation of a copper, signed and dated by David Teniers III in 1677, to the Real Academia de San Fernando. It is a painting depicting Christ among the Doctors, whose fake oval frame stands out, as well as the fact that it is following a composition by Veronese: https://www.academiacolecciones.com/pinturas/inventario.php?id=1559

Regarding the coppers by the son of David Teniers II and Ana Brueghel, there is also a singular piece belonging to the Epiarte collection (inv. nº 888). It is signed and dated in the same year as the painting in the Academia, with which it shares the type of support, a similar size and the trompe l'oeil frame. In this case, the painter goes back to the composition by Anton van Dyck for The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph with Mary, which was made for the Antwerp Jesuit church and is currently preserved in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inv. nº 488): https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail/647/?offset=13&lv=list

Teniers III proposes a novel iconography for the martyr Saint Valentine, identified by the palm and the sword of martyrdom appeared at his feet, by depicting him while receiving the rosary from the Virgin's hands.

The Influence of the Copy of Flemish Paintings in Spain during the 16th and 17th Centuries.

Brepols has just published the book Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World (1500-1700): 'Flandes' by Substitution, which has been edited by Eduardo Lamas Delgado and David García Cueto. In this book, Director of the Instituto Moll, Dr Ana Diéguez Rodríguez, together with other specialists, contributes to analyse, on the one hand, those reasons that drove the demand for copies of paintings by great Flemish masters by other painters of equal merit in later times and, on the other hand, who was involved in it, as well as the impact this practice had on the Spanish and Latin American art and society.

For further information: https://orfeo.kbr.be/handle/internal/7869

Conference in the course “Beyond Finisterre: Iberian cultural connections in the Atlantic world”

Next Friday, 9^th April, the course “Beyond Finisterre: Iberian cultural connections in the Atlantic world” begins. It was arranged by the UNED, and in this activity, the director of the Instituto Moll, Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez, will give the speech “Flanders, a path of encounter and no return in the Iberian Peninsula”, the 23^rd of April at 18:30. The intervention can be viewed online. For further information:
https://extension.uned.es/actividad/24116?fbclid=IwAR2Kjw0GXAOqVHjmaQiEJeKExS85bDgSl-Zvb1mLYTgViT3LXfcvDYXvyV4

Rinaldo and Armida by Gaspar de Crayer returns to the Epiarte collection

The painting Rinaldo and Armida by Gaspar de Crayer returns to the Epiarte collection after been displayed at the 17th century Flemish painting room in the Museo de Bellas Artes of Valencia. Until february 8^th, the work occupied the place of the Anton van Dyck’s Equestrian Portrait of the III marquis of Aytona, that has been just restored. On the occasion of the return of the canvas by Gaspar de Crayer and the arrival of the Van Dyck’s painting, the director of the Instituto Moll, Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez, will give a speech about this last portrait on Thursday february 11th at 18:00 in the Museo de Bellas Artes of Valencia.
https://www.institutomoll.com/en/publication/155

Conference at the Museo Nacional del Prado

The next Wednesday February 24th the researcher Alicia Lozano Comino, who is currently working at the Instituto Moll, will take part at the congress A Century’s Worth of Shooting Stars whit the paper The professionalization of women artists through the miniature: the Francisca Meléndez subject. It will be held in the Museo Nacional del Prado at 10.45 H. For further information: https://www.museodelprado.es/recurso/un-siglo-de-estrellas-fugaces/93e5923c-aa31-49eb-b160-3aecd6ef4296