Friday Lates: Las Hijas de Felipe on Zurbarán

Historical gossip, Baroque dramas, forgotten lives. Nuns, demons, lies, alchemy, recipe books and gold. Las Hijas de Felipe (The Daughters of Philip) is a podcast hosted by art historians Carmen Urbita and Ana Garriga that dissects the past in order to navigate the chaos of the modern world.

To mark its English language debut, and on the occasion of our current exhibition ‘Zurbarán’, this episode explores the life and art of the Spanish master Francisco de Zurbarán. They are joined in conversation by the CEEH Associate Curator of Spanish Paintings and curator of ‘Zurbarán’, Daniel Sobrino Ralston, to discuss his art, from the rind of a lemon to the gaze of a saint. And remember, everything that happens to you already happened to a nun in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Organised in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes London.

Carmen Urbita and Ana Garriga met at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (USA), while working on their doctoral dissertations. They shared an admiration for Saint Teresa and the convent life of those centuries of Counter-Reformation and religious wars. They are the creators of the podcast Las Hijas de Felipe (The Daughters of Philip), which they started in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Described by the Church Times as 'nuns for the TikTok generation', Carmen and Ana are the authors of ‘Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life’, published by Bloomsbury, which lifts the veil on monastic life.