Dos relieves de terracota españoles en la colección de Sir Brinsley Ford

This paper describes two terracotta reliefs now in the collection of Sir Brinsley Ford which were originally bought in Seville in 1832 by his great-grandfather, the famous traveller and writer Richard Ford. The tworeliefs depict St. Catherine of Siena and the Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist respectively. The style shows clear influences of the work of Juan Martínez Montañés, and they are likely to have been made inSeville, and to date from about 1620-50. These two pieces are also the first works of Spanish sculpture to be reproduced in early photographs or Talbotypes (named after William Henry Fox Talbot) and were among thefirst photographs to be included in a book of art history, the fourth volume of William Stirling's Annals of the Artists of Spain, published in London in 1847.Este artículo analiza dos relieves de terracota de la colección de Sir Brinsley Ford, adquiridos en Sevilla en 1832 por su bisabuelo el famoso viajero y escritor Richard Ford. Los dos relieves representan a Santa Catalina de Siena y al Niño Jesús con San Juanito, respectivamente. Su estilo muestra claramente influencias de la obra de Juan Martínez Montañés, y verosímilmente fueron realizados en Sevilla hacia 1620-50. Estas dos piezas son también las primeras obras de escultura española reproducidas en fotografias antiguas o Talbotipos (así llamadas por William Henry Fox Talbot) contándose entre las primeras ilustraciones incluidas en un libro de Historia del Arte, el cuarto volumen de los Annals of the Artists of Spain de William Stirling, publicado en Londres en 1847

Introduction of Special Issue 'Visual and Spatial Hybridity in the Early Modern Iberian World'

This is the introductory article to a Renaissance Studies journal Special Issue entitled 'Visual and Spatial Hybridity in the Early Modern Iberian World'