Third lecture in the series on the exhibition Masaveu Collection. Object and nature. Still lifes and vases from the 17th – 18th centuries, directed by the curator Ángel Aterido.
In this third lecture, Peter Cherry, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin, will talk about the presence and importance of the work of Luis Meléndez in the Fundación Cristina Masaveu and in the exhibition.
All lectures take place at 18:30 in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.
IMPORTANT: Free admission until full capacity is reached. Tickets can be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office (one per person) from one hour before the start of the conference. Tickets can be reserved in advance by emailing reservas@fmcmp.com. For any incident please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Peter Cherry holds a PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, with the thesis Still Life and Genre Painting in Spain During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century. Since 1990 he has been a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and curator of its modern art collection. He is a specialist in seventeenth-century Spanish art, paying special attention to the still life genre, a subject on which he has lectured at various institutions and curated numerous exhibitions such as Luis Meléndez: Still Lifes in the Museo del Prado, Still Life Painting in the Collections of the Museo Cerralbo and A Natureza-Morta na Europa at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. He is also the author of numerous specialised publications, including the books Luis Meléndez. Still Life Painter (2006) and Arte y naturaleza: el bodegón español en el Siglo de Oro (1999). He has been a member of the board of the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin since 1997.