Diego Velázquez, Portrait of a Little Girl
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Guest Gallery Talk: “The Brilliance of the Spanish World”

June 7, 1:00 pm2:00 pm

In-person

Baker/Rowland Galleries

Join Dr. Tanya Tiffany, professor and chair of the Department of Art History at UW–Milwaukee, for a guest gallery talk exploring The Brilliance of the Spanish World: El Greco, Velázquez, Zurbarán.

This drop-in experience is included with Museum admission and is free for Members. Admission tickets are available at the door or online.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to its exhibition sponsors.

 

About Tanya Tiffany

Headshot of Tanya TiffanyTanya Tiffany is professor and chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her first book, Diego Velázquez’s Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville, was published in 2012 and received an honorable mention for the Eleanor Tufts Book Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies. Among her other publications, she has co-edited a collection of essays, Velázquez Re-Examined: Theory, History, Poetry, and Theatre (2017). In collaboration with Laura Bass, Tiffany is currently completing a translation and bilingual edition of the manuscript Vida of the painter-nun Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597–1665): the only known autobiography by an early modern woman artist. The project has been awarded a Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the book is slated to be published as part of The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series. Tiffany is also a member of a research project funded by the Spanish government and headed by María Cruz de Carlos Varona, which focuses on artistic agency among Habsburg women (AGENART, La agencia artística de las mujeres de la Casa de Austria 1532–1700 [ref. PID2020-116100GB-I00]).

 

Image: Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660), Portrait of a Little Girl (detail), ca. 1638–1642. Oil on canvas. 51.5 × 41 cm. Courtesy of The Hispanic Society of America, New York
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