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Still Life with Citrons, Oranges and A Rose Francisco de Zurbarán [detalle]. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, en préstamo en el Museo del Prado.
A Masterpiece: Francisco de Zurbarán's El bodegón con cidras, naranjas y rosa (Still Life with Citrons, Oranges and A Rose)
March 20th, 2024
Colloquium
A Masterpiece: Francisco de Zurbarán's El bodegón con cidras, naranjas y rosa (Still Life with Citrons, Oranges and A Rose)
March 20th, 2024
El bodegón con cidras, naranjas y rosa, dated 1633, is the only signed still life by Francisco de Zurbarán and one of the very few works of this genre that we know he painted. Not only that, it is also one of the truly great Western masterpieces in the history of still lifes. Its discovery in the 1920s allowed researchers to further advance their studies of this subject matter in Zurbarán’s oeuvre, and coincided as well with the recognition of the fact that Spain’s cultivation of this genre is a long, uninterrupted tradition.
Taking advantage of the painting’s temporary showing at the Museo del Prado – as an “Invited Work” –, and in order to offer audiences a better understanding of this still life, we have organized this colloquium. Three specialists will discuss the origins of the painting; its role at the Norton Simon Museum; what the technical studies have revealed about the creative process involved in the actual making of the work, and its relevance in the context of Spanish and European still life history. They will additionally address the relevance the work held for its author, Francisco de Zurbarán; its significance in his oeuvre as a whole; and the moment in his career when he signed it in 1633. This conversation will be followed by a debate.
- Sign up
- Please fill in the online form available on this website between February 21 and March 13, 2024
- Schedule
- The schedule as it appears in the program is in CEST
- Recipients
- University students, researchers, professionals and general public
- Location
- Auditorium, Museo Nacional del Prado
- Price
- Free of charge
- Direction
- Javier Portús (Museo del Prado)
- Language
- Spanish and English. Simultaneous translation will be available
- Face-to-face and remote attendance
- Face-to-face attendance is possible subject to available seating. Remote attendance is possible; a Zoom link will be provided to registered attendees. Desired attendance mode must be indicated when registering.
Program
2024
- Mar
- 20
09.30 hAccreditation
10.00 hWelcome and presentation
10.15 hEl Bodegón con cidras, naranjas y rosa” at the Norton Simon Museum: Technical analysis and exhibition context.
Emily Talbot (Norton Simon Museum)
10.45 hZurbarán, Towards 1633
Javier Portús (Museo Nacional del Prado)
11.15 hSprings and Disenchantments: Still life Painting in the Spain of Zurbarán.
Ángel Aterido (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
11.45 hDiscussion and conclusions
Activity
Director. Javier Portús
Javier Portús
Javier Portús, Head of the Department of Spanish Painting (until 1800) at the Museo del Prado, holds a PhD in Art History. His fields of specialization are the relationship between painting and literature in Spain’s Golden Age, the reception of works of art, and the problems faced by of art historiographers. His books include Pintura y pensamiento en la España de Lope de Vega (1999); La Sala Reservada del Museo del Prado y el coleccionismo de pintura de desnudo en la Corte española 1554-1838 (1998); El concepto de pintura española: Historia de un problema (2012) and Velázquez: Su tiempo y el nuestro (2018). He has curated, among others, the exhibitions Fábulas de Velázquez (Velázquez's Fables) (2007); Velázquez y la familia de Felipe IV (Velázquez and the Family of Philip IV) (2013), Metapintura. Un viaje a la idea del arte (Metapainting. A Journey Into the Idea of Art) (2016) and Museo del Prado 1819-2019. Un lugar de memoria (Museo del Prado 1819-2019. A Place of Remembrance) (2018).
Emily Talbot
Emily Talbot
Emily Talbot is Chief Curator at the Norton Simon Museum, where she oversees the curatorial and conservation programs. Prior to joining the Simon, she held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Portrait Gallery in London. A specialist in in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European art, Emily received her PhD in the History of Art from the University of Michigan, and holds Master’s degrees from New York University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She is currently organizing an exhibition entitled Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen, which features a reciprocal loan from the Museo del Prado. The exhibition will be on view in Pasadena between 13 December 2024 – 24 March 2025.
Ángel Aterido
Ángel Aterido
Ángel Aterido holds a PhD in art history and is a professor of this subject at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has specialized in the study of Spanish painting in Spain’s Golden Age, which he approaches from a multidisciplinary point of view while focusing especially on the sources. He has edited the Corpus velazqueño (2000), the Corpus de Alonso Cano, Inventarios reales. Colecciones de pinturas de Felipe V e Isabel de Farnesio (2004) and El final del Siglo de Oro. La pintura en Madrid en el cambio dinástico 1685-1726 (2015) was the subject of his doctoral thesis. An acclaimed specialist in the history of the Spanish still life, which he studied in-depth in the monograph El bodegón en la España del Siglo de Oro (2002), he has curated a number of exhibitions, among them Juan Fernández el Labrador. Naturalezas muertas (2013), La nature morte espagnole (2018) and, most recently, Colección Masaveu. Bodegones y floreros de los siglos XVII-XVIII (2023).