Sculpture and Sculptors in Spain, 1450-1660
Panel at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference

Panel Chairs: Ilenia Colón Mendoza, University of Central Florida
(icm2hotmail.com) and Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, University of Vermont
(kelley.didiouvm.edu)

The goal of this panel is to highlight recent research on sculpture in
Spain during the long sixteenth century. Please submit papers dealing
with the varied methodological approaches to the production, creation
and interpretation of sculpture and its place within the art historical
canon and the history of Spanish art. Studies on context, iconography,
manufacture, transportation, and patronage are welcome. We are
particularly interested in the roles of sculpture in diplomacy and
politics, the organization of sculpture workshops, the specific use of
materials and their meaning, the culture of display and collecting
practices, the status of sculptors and sculpture in Spanish society,
production and exportation of works in an out of Spain by native-born
and immigrant sculptors as well as sculptors who worked for Spanish
clients outside of Spain.

Please send 250-word abstract to both chairs by March 25, 2014.