The Valencian Institute of Modern Art, IVAM, (Spain) presents, until November 13, an exhibition by artist Javier Calvo (Valencia, 1941) that collects his work of recent years around the world of fashion.

Fundación Mapfre (Madrid, Spain), in collaboration with the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, presents until January 8, 2012, the exhibition Yves Saint Laurent, the first retrospective of this artist and designer to be held in Spain, offering a complete survey of a career that spanned forty years of creativity.

The Linley sisters were portrayed together, in 1772, by Thomas Gainsborough, who was a close friend of their father's, and their neighbour in Bath. The painter had seen Elizabeth and Mary grow before his eyes and tenderly represented them in their magnificent large canvas known as "The Linley Sisters", now at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London (United Kingdom).

The Gemeente Museum Den Haag (the Netherlands) hosts the exhibition Fashion and Art, A passionate affair, which shows how attire is used by powerful women to stand out from the crowd and how art has often been a major source of inspiration for dress designers. The exhibition includes creations by Liberty, Sonia Delaunay, Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy. .

Just under 500 years ago Raphael, one of the most celebrated painters of the Renaissance, painted the "Sistine Madonna" and the "Madonna di Foligno". These two masterpieces are now to be reunited in a special exhibition named Heavenly Splendour. Raphael, Dürer and Grünewald paint the Madonna, which is organized by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, (Germany) together with the Vatican Museums.