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Description

Salvador Dalí’s Don Quixote de la Mancha (1957): On Windmills, Giants, and Other Monsters of Our Own Imagining    

In 1957, surrealist painter, printmaker, and self-styled celebrity Salvador Dalí made a suite of illustrations for one of Spanish history’s greatest works of literature: Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605-1615). In this course, we will look together at these lithographs to examine Dalí’s unique take on the misadventures of the knight errant Don Quixote and his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, exploring such topics as the magical potential of madness and the transformative capacities of the imagination. We will consider, moreover, the persistence of these traditions into the modern age and the challenges, for Quixote and Dalí alike, of living between reality and illusion.    

This course is a collaboration between the Rosenbach Museum & Library and the Philadelphia Art Museum (PAM), occasioned by the exhibition “Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100” (PAM, November 8, 2025–February 16, 2026), celebrating the 100th anniversary of the surrealist movement.    

Sponsors

Salvador Dalí’s Don Quixote de la Mancha with Julia Vázquez is sponsored by Zoë Pappas.

Instructor

Julia Vázquez is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the Marcel Duchamp Retrospective at the Philadelphia Art Museum. A dual specialist in 17th-century Spanish art and 20th-century Latin American women artists, she is the author of “Velázquez, Painter & Curator” (2024) and contributing curator to “Marisol: A Retrospective” (Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 2024-2025).