Heritage

Past events in the Heritage category

  • Heritage
  • Houston

'Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado'

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) presents more than 100 masterworks from one of the world’s most renowned collections of European painting.

December 16, 2012 – March 31, 2013
  • Heritage
  • Dallas

'Velázquez and His Contemporary Painters in Seville'

A lecture by Ignacio Cano Rivero, Head of the Department of Exhibitions at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla.

December 6, 2012

  • Heritage
  • Dallas

'Velázquez: Master and Masterpieces'

A lecture by Jonathan Brown, professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University.

November 15, 2012

  • Heritage
  • Seattle

Hesperion XXI: The Golden Age of Consort Viol Music

Hesperion XXI presents a virtual tour of 16th- and 17th-century Europe with music for five violas da gamba, lute, and percussion, directed by Jordi Savall.

November 10, 2012

  • Heritage
  • Salem, MA

The Invention of Glory, Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

Exhibition of the four late-fifteenth-century Flemish tapestries known as The Pastrana Tapestries from the Collegiate Church of Pastrana in Guadalajara, Spain.

October 27, 2012 – December 31, 2012
  • Heritage
  • Seattle

Musica Ficta: 'Hispaniarum Rex Catholicus'

Musica Ficta performs sacred works by Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Alonso Lobo, dedicated to Felipe II and Felipe III of Spain.

October 13, 2012

  • Heritage
  • Dallas

'Diego Velázquez, The Early Court Portraits'

An exhibition focusing on Velázquez’s first decade at the Spanish Court, featuring the Prado’s Museum’s Philip IV (c. 1624-27).

September 16, 2012 – January 13, 2013
  • Heritage
  • Dallas

Symposium for 'Diego Velázquez, The Early Court Portraits'

Academic symposiums featuring Velázquez scholars Tanya Tiffany, Javier Portús and Layra R. Bass.

September 13, 2012

  • Heritage
  • San Diego

The Invention of Glory, Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

The Pastrana Tapestries —recipient of the 2011 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards— are among the finest surviving Gothic tapestries in the world.

June 7, 2012 – September 30, 2012
  • Heritage
  • Nacogdoches, TX

'Camino Real de los Tejas: Past & Present'

The exhibition seeks to increase public awareness of a long and important period in the history of Texas — the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, when Spain and later Mexico were intertwined with the Lone Star State.

June 5, 2012 – October 5, 2012
  • Heritage
  • Natchitoches, LA

'Camino Real de los Tejas: Past & Present'

The exhibition and seminar seek to increase public awareness of a long and important period in the history of Texas — the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, when Spain and later Mexico were intertwined with the Lone Star State.

March 6, 2012 – May 31, 2012
  • Heritage
  • Los Angeles

Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World

LACMA presents a groundbreaking exhibition of Spanish Colonial Art and its pre-columbian origins.

November 6, 2011 – January 29, 2012
  • Heritage
  • San Juan, PR

'The Constitution of 1812: the participation of America’s representatives'

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Cortes of Cadiz (1812), this Congress focuses on the impact of this First Liberal Constitution in Spain, Puerto Rico and several American countries.

October 19, 2011 – October 21, 2011
  • Heritage
  • Houston

27th Annual Day of the Hispanic World

Houston celebrates the 27th Annual Day of the Hispanic World (Día de la Hispanidad) at the Miller Outdoor Theater in Hermann Park.

October 15, 2011

  • Heritage
  • Amherst, MA

War, Dictatorship and Historic Memory

This conference brings together scholars to discuss recent developments in the movement for recognition of atrocities of the Spanish Civil war.

October 13, 2011 – October 15, 2011
  • Heritage
  • Albuquerque

'Día de los Muertos'

Various activities for families, e.g. making altars, sugar skulls, Mexican paper cutting (papel picado) and more!

October 7, 2011 – November 7, 2011
  • Heritage
  • Austin

'Camino Real de los Tejas: Past & Present'

The exhibition and seminar seek to increase public awareness of a long and important period in the history of Texas — the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, when Spain and later Mexico were intertwined with the Lone Star State.

September 18, 2011 – September 27, 2011
  • Heritage
  • Washington, D.C.

The Invention of Glory, Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

Exhibition of the four late-fifteenth-century Flemish tapestries known as The Pastrana Tapestries from the Collegiate Church of Pastrana in Guadalajara, Spain.

September 18, 2011 – January 8, 2012
  • Heritage
  • Galveston

'Camino Real de los Tejas: Past & Present'

The exhibition and seminar seek to increase public awareness of a long and important period in the history of Texas — the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, when Spain and later Mexico were intertwined with the Lone Star State.

August 27, 2011 – September 5, 2011
  • Heritage
  • Houston

'Camino Real de los Tejas: Past & Present'

The exhibition and seminar seek to increase public awareness of a long important period in the history of Texas — the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, when Spain and later Mexico were intertwined with the Lone Star State.

June 16, 2011 – July 3, 2011
  • Heritage
  • New Orleans

'The Threads of Memory'

The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States examines Spanish heritage in North America, including Spain’s role in America’s quest for independence.

May 11, 2011 – July 10, 2011
  • Heritage
  • Seattle

'Spanish explorers in the Pacific Northwest'

Lecture series by anthropologist Leoncio Carretero Collado from April 24th to May 6th.

April 26, 2011 – May 6, 2011
  • Heritage
  • Seattle

Lecture by Tomás Lozano on the earliest orchestral music in the U.S.

Tomás Lozano, a renowned Spanish folklorist, scholar, musician, and performer, will talk about the earliest orchestral music documented in the United States: that which was performed by largely Native American orchestras in the early 17th century at the New Mexican Franciscan Mission Schools along the Rio Grande.

April 21, 2011

  • Heritage
  • San Juan, PR

Congress of Atlantic Governances in the New World

During the Iberoamerican Congress of the History of Atlantic Governances in the New World, specialists in the History of Law, Roman Law and American History from five countries will address the evolution of the Governance as an institution in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

April 11, 2011 – April 15, 2011
  • Heritage
  • Miami

Flamenco in the last 50 years

A screening of the groundbreaking 1952 documentary Duende y Misterio del Flamenco will follow a conference by Estela Zatania on a half-century of Flamenco.

February 17, 2011

  • Heritage
  • Dallas

The Invention of Glory, Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

Exhibition of the four late-fifteenth-century Flemish tapestries known as The Pastrana Tapestries from the Collegiate Church of Pastrana in Guadalajara, Spain.

February 5, 2011 – May 13, 2012
  • Heritage
  • El Paso

'The Threads of Memory'

A perspective about Spain’s role in the formation of the U.S. through 138 rarely exhibited documents, maps and portraits.

January 23, 2011 – April 24, 2011