New releases

• Ribera, ténèbres et lumière The Petit Palais is presenting the first French retrospective ever devoted to Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), the terrible heir to Caravaggio, whom his contemporaries considered ‘darker and more ferocious’ than…
• Francisco Bayeu’s Study of a Dog from Life Francisco Bayeu (1734–1795) was the most influential painter at the Spanish court in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Painter to Charles III and IV and director of the…
• Figuras ridículas
  La pintura de género en la España del siglo XVII Genre painting in seventeenth-century Spain is scarce in comparison with the Flemish or Italian schools. But if two of the most important practitioners of this trend in modern Europe were…
• Damaged Soul
  Visual Cultures of the Repentant Magdalene The Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland holds a small yet remarkable collection of works representing the Penitent Magdalene in her cave in Southern France. These were painted by three seventeenth-century…
• Goya’s Caprichos in Nineteenth-Century France
  Politics of the Grotesque The impact of Goya’s oeuvre and particularly of the Caprichos (1799) on nineteenth-century French art was immense, long lasting and multifaceted. Whereas in Spain Goya was associated with the work…
• The Sculptural Works in the Spanish Gallery The collection of Spanish sculpture at Bishop Auckland, both chronologically and in terms of subject matter, presents the reader with a virtually encyclopaedic view of Spanish art from medieval times…
• A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess
  The Festive Entry of Joanna of Castile into Brussels (1496) After marrying Philip the Fair in Lier, Princess Joanna, Infanta of Castile, travelled to Brussels by herself and on the evening of 9 December 1496 she reached the outskirts of…
• Artistic Exchanges between Spain and Italy, 1516–1621: Orrente, Maíno, Tristán, Borgianni and Cavarozzi The collection of the Spanish Gallery at Bishop Auckland boasts a significant group of paintings that shed light on the rich and diverse artistic exchanges between Spain and Italy around…
• Murillo’s True Portrait of the Holy King Ferdinand III in Context In April 1671 Seville’s most celebrated artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) was permitted to open the tomb of the uncorrupted body of the medieval king, Ferdinand III of Castile and…