Dr. Peter Cherry

Lecturer

Research interests

I have a long-standing interest in the history of still-life and genre painting in Spain and Italy, and have been involved in a number of exhibitions in this area. My research interests generally focus on the visual art of seventeenth-century Spain and include the following: the production, market and functions of different types of visual art; the techniques of art; art and patronage in Seville; Velázquez and his circle; and, more recently, the relationship between art and plague.

Selected publications

• In the Presence of Things. Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting, with John Loughman and Lesley Stevenson, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, 2010.
• “A closer look at Juan Ribalta’s ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’”, Bulletin del Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 4, 2009, pp. 67-99.
• “Velázquez and the Nude” in Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Velázquez’s Fables. Mythology and Sacred History in the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, ed. Javier Portús Pérez, 2007, pp. 241-69.
• Luis Meléndez. Still-Life Painter, Fundación de Apoyo a la Historia del Arte Hispánico, Madrid, 2006.
• Murillo’s Scenes of Childhood, with Xanthe Brooke, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London and Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 2001.

Teaching

I teach undergraduate courses dedicated to the painting and sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, and painting and sculpture in seventeenth-century Europe. I have begun a new course for final-year students on art and religion in the Hispanic world.

Dr. Cherry on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Department of the History of Art and Architecture,,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2.

Telephone: 00 353 1 8961212
Fax: 00 353 1 8961438
Email: pcherry@tcd.ie