Many pieces on show in the Spanish Gallery are from the personal collection of financier Jonathan Ruffer, the main backer of a £150m regeneration project in Bishop Auckland
The sculpture is thought to have been illicitly sold from a convent in Granada
Two works from the private collection of renowned New York dealer Herman Schickman hit the auction block today after being loaned and lost from the Met's collection
The enormously productive painter wielded the fastest of brushes on often huge canvases, suffusing them with Spanish sun and colour
The Spanish artist’s extraordinary paintings of tortured bodies and tormented souls
Will the third time be lucky?
Auction houses experience surprisingly high demand as the most expensive living Spanish artist has his best year yet
The veteran Catalan director has a season of films on show at Bankside
We look at the talking points and early sales
Director Borja-Villel is instituting radical changes to Madrid museum
The National Gallery is now trying to raise the funds to buy it
Exhibitions will be held for months due to long-term loan
The 16th-century silver object had been taken from a church in Toro in 1890
Interest in the field is surging as new collectors enter the fray
Time to stop being ashamed of those Conquistadores, and to think about the Spanish-speaking population today
The National Gallery of Art
Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture
Four years late, the major show of Spanish colonial art and culture reveals the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru produced during Spanish dominion