GRISO organizes in Lisbon an international congress on art and literature in the Golden Century
The meeting, co-organized with the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, brought together fifteen researchers from seven countries.
The group de research Siglo de Oro (GRISO) of the University of Navarra has organized the international congress 'Da Monarquia Dual à Restauração. Arte e literatura / From Dual Monarchy to the Restoration. Art and Literature', held on 21 and 22 February 2011 at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (MNAA) in Lisbon. The meeting, framed in the project "network European Authority and power in the Golden Age" of the Program "Jerónimo de Ayanz" of the Plan of training and research and development 2009-2010 of the Government of Navarra, has brought together fifteen experts from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, United States and Canada.
In addition to the marked international character, it is worth mentioning the approach multidisciplinary of congress, in which papers were read not only on Art and Literature, but also on History or History of Spirituality, among other aspects. At the opening ceremony, Prof. António Filipe Pimentel, director of the MNAA, highlighted the relevant contribution of the GRISO to the development of Spanish-Portuguese cultural relations, with the organization in recent years of meetings in Oporto, Coimbra and Lisbon.
The University of Navarra was represented by four GRISO researchers: Ignacio Arellano (who spoke about Portugal and the Portuguese in the Avisos de Jerónimo de Barrionuevo), Juan Manuel Escudero (with a discussion paper on the figure of San Gil de Portugal in the theater of the Golden Age), Carlos Mata Induráin (who analyzed the comedy El hidalgo de la Mancha, written in partnership by three wits, Matos Fragoso, Diamante and Juan Vélez de Guevara) and Gabriela Torres Olleta (who has worked on the hagiographic iconography in the Portuguese Jesuit relations of 1622). The academic sessions were completed with a visit to the exhibition 'Primitivos portugueses (1450-1550). O século de Nuno Gonçalves', installed in the same museum, curated by José Alberto Seabra Carvalho.
Series of GRISO congresses in the great museums of the world
This meeting, co-organized with the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga de Lisboa (the most important museum in Portugal, equivalent to the Spanish Prado Museum) continues the series of GRISO congresses in the great museums of the world. Previously, in May 2010, the international congress 'The Spanish Golden Age: text and image' was held at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (Russia), whose conference proceedings has recently been published by Eunsa. Other congresses in the series are currently being prepared at partnership with the Louvre Museum (Paris, France), the Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan, Italy), the Brukenthal Museum (Sibiu, Romania) and the Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain).