Velázquez. Portraiture and Power
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Auditorium 3 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThe event will be livestreamed on this page.
In the context of the fifth Visiting Artwork, a panel of international experts talks about portrait painting in the work of Diego Velázquez.
The fifth edition of Visiting Artwork at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum welcomes King Philip IV of Spain by Diego Velázquez, from the Frick Collection in New York. The painting by the Spanish master sets the stage for the theme of this conference, Portraiture and Power, with international experts discussing Velázquez’s pictorial production and his close relationship with the Spanish court of Philip IV.
Image: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez, King Philip IV of Spain. 1644. Oil on canvas. The Frick Collection, New York. Inv. 1911.1.123. Photo: Michael Bodycomb (detail)
Speakers
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Guillaume Kientz
CEO and Director of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. Kientz is a specialist in Spanish painting, particularly in the works of El Greco, Velazquez, Ribera, Goya, and the European Caravaggism. He served as a curator in the Louvre’s Department of Paintings for eight years, focusing on Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American painting. In 2013 he developed the exhibition Le Mexique au Louvre. Chefs-d’oeuvre de la Nouvelle Espagne, XVII–XVIIIe, bringing Mexican masterpieces to the spotlight.
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Pablo Pérez d’Ors
Art historian educated at Universidad de Navarra and the University of Oxford. As an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at The Frick Collection, New York, he curated the exhibition The King at War, on the Frick’s King Philip IV (2010–2011). Between 2011 and 2018 he worked as a curator at Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he wrote the catalogue of Spanish collection (RM Verlag, 2016). He is currently Director of Fundación Juan March Palma.
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Xavier F. Salomon
Deputy Director and Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York. He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and has worked in various museums in the United Kingdom and the United States, including Dulwich Picture Gallery and The MET. His main areas of expertise are the painters Paolo Veronese and Rosalba Carriera. He is currently working on a new catalogue raisonné of Veronese’s drawings, one of Carriera’s works, and on the catalogue of the Spanish paintings at the Frick Collection.
Programme
14:30 / Opening
14:45 / Taking the Pose: Velázquez’ Portraits of Philip IV
15:15 / Velázquez’s ‘King Philip IV’ at The Frick Collection
— 15 minute break —16:00 / War Paint: The Fraga Portrait in Context
16:30 / Screening of ‘Conservation of Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV’, a video by Michael Gallagher
16:50 / Debate
17:15 / Visit to the exhibition ‘Visiting Artwork: Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Philip IV’
18:00 / Cocktail
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