Claudia Hopkins and Romantic Spain winners of the Mark A. Roglán Publication Award
Prof. Claudia Hopkins has been honored with the inaugural Mark A. Roglán Publication Award by The Custard Institute for her groundbreaking work, Romantic Spain. David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil, also available in Spanish. This prize recognizes exemplary scholarship on Spanish art from 1820 to 1920. Hopkins, Ph.D., is a distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Edinburgh, renowned for her exploration of constructs of self and others in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. She is the main author and coordinator of Romantic Spain, which also includes contributions by eleven other scholars. The book accompanied the eponymous exhibition curated by her at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 2021 and sheds light on the Romantic image of Spain forged by these two landscape painters, David Roberts and Genaro Pérez Villaamil. Published by the CEEH, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and the Instituto Ceán Bermúdez, it also received the prestigious Jonathan Brown Award from the Society for Iberian Global Art for exceptional achievement in an exhibition catalogue.