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Hispanic Society: Art and Atrocity in Goya’s Prints

Join us for the annual symposium of the Hispanic Society’s Goya Research Center. Following the museum’s recent exhibition Goya and the Age of Revolution, this year’s symposium centers on the depiction of war in Goya’s prints.

See here for the schedule of events:

Morning Session
9:30 am – 9:45 am: Registrations / Coffee
9:45 am – 10:00 am: Opening Remarks
10:00 am – 10:30 am: Reading the Fine Print: How Scholars Reconstructed the Cultural Context of Goya’s Prints
Patrick Lenaghan, Head of Prints and Photographs, The Hispanic Society Museum & Library.
10:30 am – 11:00 am: Goya, Beyond Rembrandt
Anthony Cascardi, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor at University of California, Berkeley.
11:00 am – 11:30 am: Folly or Madness? Translating Goya’s Captions
Reva Wolf, Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
11:30 am – 12:00 pm: Goyesque Drawings and Historical Forgery (Talk in Spanish)
José Manuel Matilla, Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museo Nacional del Prado.
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm: Discussion
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch
Afternoon Session
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Goya’s Disasters: The Tragic Sublime of History
Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art at Harvard University.
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm: From Exemplum to Horror: The Origins of Violence in Goya’s Visual Imagination
Lorenzo Giammattei, Ph.D. in Art History, Sapienza Universitá di Roma
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm: Visualizing the Multitude: Political Subjecthood in Goya’s Qué valor!
Maria Minuesa, Ph.D. Student in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm: Punishment Through the Lens of Francisco Goya.
Juan Gabriel Ramírez Bolívar, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
4:00 pm – 4:20 pm: Colonial Desastres: Goya, Morocco, and the photojournalism of war
Arnau Sala Sallent, Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University.
4:20 pm – 5:00 pm: Discussion and Q&A
5:00 pm: Cocktail Reception

Hispanic Society: “Living Vision: The Sorolla Gallery at 100” Curator Talk

Join us for an intimate conversation with Dr. Noemí Espinosa about the regional costumes featured in Joaquín Sorolla’s mural series Vision of Spain.

Dr. Noemí Espinosa is Associate Curator at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. She officially joined the institution’s Department of Prints and Photographs in 2007, where she cataloged and studied the core of the collection, an exceptional legacy of geographical, and anthropological value from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. She has also researched extensively the history and art of The Philippines from the 19th and 20th centuries.

As an art historian and ethnographer, Dr. Espinosa is interested in the history of familiar things, the ones we might take for granted, and sometimes don’t notice. Her recent research focus is in the collection of Decorative Arts and Textiles, shifting from a visual to a material culture that more closely represents the development and changes of a society, its traditions, taste, popular beliefs, and daily life.

Hispanic Society: “A Living Vision–The Sorolla Gallery at 100” Curator Talk

“A Living Vision: The Sorolla Gallery at 100” Curator Talk Series: Session 1 with Dr. Marcus Burke

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Marcus Burke focusing on the history of the Sorolla Gallery at the Hispanic Society. Come and learn more about the scenes depicted in each painting and Sorolla’s artmaking process.

Dr. Marcus B. Burke is Senior Curator, emeritus, at the Hispanic Society and a leading scholar of the works of Joaquín Sorolla.

Be sure to save the date for the remaining programs in this series:

Saturday, September 5th, 2026 3pm-4pm: The Sorolla Gallery at 100  Session 2
Saturday, September 12th, 2026 3pm-5pm: Screening and Director Q&A for The Man Who Painted Spain
December 2026: The Sorolla Gallery at 100 Session 4
March 2027: A Living Vision: The Sorolla Gallery at 100 Session 4

Hispanic Society: Fashion in Illuminated Manuscripts–A Conversation with Amanda Wunder

Fashion in the Hispanic Society’s Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Conversation with Amanda Wunder
Join us for a moderated conversation with Amanda Wunder, the curator of the exhibition Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700. Inspired by Spain’s imperial expansion, elite fashion in 16th and 17th century Spain underwent a profound transformation, producing opulent garments that radically reshaped the human body and projected an air of wealth and nobility. The talk will focus on the way Professor Wunder utilized the Hispanic Society’s tremendous collection of illuminated manuscripts to chart the development of elite style in early modern Spain.

The program begins with light refreshments, followed by the conversation and a viewing of the exhibition.

This conversation is presented in partnership with The Drawing Foundation and forms part of their programming for Drawings Week 2026.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are required.