New releases

• Luis de Vargas, pincel y mano peregrina Luis de Vargas, a painter seldom studied despite his importance to sixteenth-century Spanish art, returned to Seville in 1550 after two long decades in Italy and burst onto the local…
• Pedro de Villafranca: Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV This is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the Spanish artist Pedro de Villafranca y Malagón (c. 1615–1684). His unrivalled skill as an engraver was recognised…
• Arquitectura y Monarquía en Madrid, 1620-1700 With its selection as the court of the Spanish Habsburgs, Madrid became the de facto capital of a global empire, a place from which momentous decisions were made whose implications…
• 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…