Research Personnel in Training from the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia (2020).

Andrés Ávila Valverde (Mislata, 1995) has a degree in History (2013-2017) and Art History (2017-2019), both from the University of Valencia. Thanks to the ERASMUS program, he was able to stay during the 2015-2016 academic year at the Università della Sapienza, in Rome. Likewise, he has carried out curricular internships at the Museu d'Història de València where he worked on aspects related to communication and social networks (2017) and has collaborated with the magazine Makma of visual arts and contemporary culture (2019).

In the academic year 2018-2019, he obtained the Collaboration Grant with the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia, starting in the research tasks linked to the mentioned department. However, its academic production began after the completion of the University Master of Academic Excellence in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Valencia and the Jaume I University of Castelló (2019-2020) and the subsequent obtaining of the Teacher Training scholarship University (FPU) of the Ministry of Universities, becoming, as of November 1, 2020, Research Personnel in Training at the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia.

His general interests are in art, history, culture, Christianity, and languages. Currently, he is focused on research and he is carrying out his doctoral thesis whose title is 'THE EUCHARIST IN VALENCIAN ART: COMMUNION CHAPELS AND TRASAGRARIES' inserted in the I+D Research Project of the Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Competitiveness: GEOART (https://geoart.es/) on Geographies of artistic mobility. Valencia in Modern Times, directed by professor Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer Lozano (mercedes.gomez-ferrer@uv.es).

Finally, since December 2020 he has held the position of Vice President of the Association of young researchers of the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Valencia, 'PANGAEA', where he has been a member since 2019.

Torrent (Valencia), 1967. Degree in Geography and History (1990) and PhD in Art History (2010) from the University of Valencia. He has developed his professional activity as director of the Museu Comarcal de l'Horta Sud Josep Ferrís March, from its creation in 1996 until 2013, which he has combined during this period with teaching as an associate teacher in the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia, as an assistant professor since 2013 and since 2018 as a senior lecturer. He has been an elected member of the faculty since 2014, where as such he has formed part of several university management bodies, such as the Governing Council, the Statutes Commission and the Faculty Board. Since September 2018, he has been responsible for the cultural heritage conservation area at the University of Valencia.

His lines of research focus on the study of certain manifestations of cultural heritage related to the landscapes where they are integrated, such as popular architecture, industrial architecture and the heritage of public works, on which he has published various contributions in specialized journals and collective works.

He has worked on drawing up inventories of immovable ethnological heritage (1994) and industrial heritage in the Valencian Community (1997-2005) and has been a member of the drafting teams of various territorial planning instruments, special plans, master plans for monuments and municipal catalogues of protected buildings and spaces, and has authored a good number of reports on the protection and management of immovable cultural monuments. He has participated in more than ten research contracts and in several R&D projects financed in public calls.

Grado en Historia del Arte por la Universitat de València (2015) - Premio Extraordinario de Grado y Beca de Excelencia Académica de la Generalitat Valenciana

Máster en Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual por la Universitat de València (2016) - Premio Extraordinario de Máster

Beca de investigación en las colecciones del Museo del Prado-Meadows Museum de Dallas (siglos XV-XVI). Departamento de Pintura Italiana y Francesa hasta 1700

Doctorado en Historia del Arte por la Universitat de València (2022) - Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado. Tesis: Arte, coleccionismo y cultura nobiliaria en el Reino de València en tiempos de Felipe III. Directores: Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer y Miguel Falomir Faus

Contratado posdoctoral Margarita Salas (2022)

Contratado posdoctoral Generalitat Valenciana (APOSTD/2023) en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la UNED (Madrid). Supervisors: Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer y Antonio Urquízar Herrera

Líneas de investigación:
-Coleccionismo y agencia artística de la nobleza cortesana en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII
-El I duque de Lerma (m.1625) y su relación con las artes
-Intercambios artísticos España-Italia, con un especial interés en la importación española de mármoles genoveses y de pintura de antiguos maestros

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Sergi Doménech García (Carlet, 1982) es doctor en Historia del Arte por la Universitat de València (cum laude) con mención internacional. Obtuvo una beca predoctoral en el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la UVEG. Ha sido investigador en la Cátedra Demetrio Ribes e investigador de plantilla en el Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  Ha realizado diversas estancias de investigación en diversos centros internacionales –entre ellos en el Warburg Institute, Londres– y ha sido profesor invitado en varias universidades de Iberoamérica. Es miembro de la Sociedad Española de Emblemática y secretario de la revista Imago que esta sociedad edita. En la actualidad es Secretario Académico del Departament d'Història de l'Art de la Universitat de València y coordinador de las prácticas externas del Máster en Historia del Arte y Cultural Visual de la misma universidad.

Ha dedicado parte de su investigación al estudio del arte iberoamericano, aunque no de manera excluyente. Sus investigaciones se centran en el análisis e interpretación de la imagen. Su principal línea de investigación es el estudio de las “prácticas, ingenios persuasivos y retórica visual de la imagen religiosa en el periodo barroco”, así como la continuidad de prácticas y expectativas de la imagen sagrada en la modernidad. Reflejo de esto último es su línea de investigación sobre “Imagen, religión y poder en la España contemporánea”.

Mireia Ferrer Álvarez is Associate Professor at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València.

PhD in History of Art from the University of Valencia with the PhD Dissertation "Paris y los pintores valencianos 1880-1914" (2007). She studied at the Universitat de València, at the Université Paris Sorbonne IV, École des Hautes Études in Sciences Social in Paris and at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of New York.

She has been teaching at the Universitat de Valencia History of Art Department since 2000-2001. Currently teaches in the Degree in Art History (Universitat de València), Master de Patrimonio Cultural (Universitat de València), Master Universitario en Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual (Universitat de València. Universitat Jaume I de Castelló); Diploma de Especialización en Análisis y Autentificación de obras de arte (Universitat de València); PERMEA. Programa Experimental de Mediación y Educación a través del Arte ( Consorcio de Museos de la Comunitat Valenciana-Universitat de València) and Master de Fotografía Universitat de València-Espai d'Art Fotogràfic.

She has directed as (PR) the Research Project (R&D) "El arte y su función social en las sociedades contemporáneas" and as a member of nine R & D Projects of the Universitat de València, the Universitat de Barcelona and the European Union.

Her fields of research are focused on Cultural Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Museum Studies, Artistic Heritage and Spanish and Valencian contemporary art.

Dr Mar Gaitán is a Margarita Salas post-doc fellow at the Universitat de València (Spain) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM, Italy) where she currently works as full PhD researcher  developing a series of toolkits to  support sustainable development through the use and conservation of heritage collections. She had formerly graduated as an Art Historian and MA in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management both from the Universitat de València (Spain). Specialist in cultural management, digital humanities and controlled vocabularies, she has developed part of her career in research centres dedicated to the conservation and protection of cultural heritage of great prestige, such as the National Coordination of Cultural Heritage- INAH (Mexico) and the International Centre of Studies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (Rome), working with innovative methodologies and tools that have a direct impact on society and the conservation of cultural heritage. She has participated in several projects of regional, national and European trajectory such as SILKNOW (H2020-EU), Women's Legacy (Erasmus +), SeMap (BBVA Foundation) or Arxiu Valencià del Disseny (PROMETEO-GVA).  Member of the group Rereadings. Museum Itineraries from a Gender Perspective, and of ICOM in the Documentation Committee, and in the Audiovisual and New Technologies. Author of +30 scientific publications. Her research interests are focused on Cultural Heritage, gender studies and creative industries. She has a strong interdisciplinary profile and has special interest in the emerging collaborative work between ICT and SSH researchers.

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 Yolanda Gil Saura (1972) is a full professor attached to the Departament d'Història de l'Art of the Universitat de València where she has been teaching since 1999. She has been the academic secretary of the department, coordinator of the Degree in Art History and secretary of  Ars Longa journal.He has been part of the Board of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia.He has been part of the Board of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia.She is currently head of Art History Department. 
 He got his PhD under the direction of prof. Joaquín Bérchez about baroque architecture in the Valencian territories of the ancient diocese of Tortosa. Since then his research has focused on the art and architecture of the Spanish Modern Age especially the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has taken an interest in architecture at the crossroads of Valencian, Catalan and Aragonese territories and has subsequently turned his attention to the world of nobiliary collecting. He studied the cultural presence of the Austrian exiles in Vienna after the War of Succession, a topic on which he continues to work and that led him to make a stay at the University of Vienna. Ongoing research focuses on the viceregal court of Valencia and cultural exchanges with the Italian field, which has led him to make stays and give lectures at the universities of Palermo, Cagliari and Venice. His research has been framed uninterruptedly in funded research projects led first by Professor Joaquín Bérchez and then by Professor Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer. She is part of the  group GIUV2013-055 Art and Architecture of the Modern Age-GEOART and is IP of the research project PID2021-126266NB-100 Living nobly in early modern Valencia, a court of the Hispanic Monarchy.

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Mireia López Bertran is lecturer (profesor ayudante doctor) at Departament of Art History

of the Universitat de Valencia since October 2016. She was graduated in Humanities by

the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2000 and received her PhD degree in History from the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) in 2007. She specialises in the Phoenician-Punic

archaeology, with research interests in iconography, ancient Mediterranean art, embodiment,

rituals and gender. Between 2010-2012, she was postdoctoral researcher of the Spanish

Ministry of Education and Culture-FECYT and she worked as an Honorary Research Fellow

at the Archaeology Unit of the University of Glasgow. She undertook a project called “ Craft,

rituals and gender in the Punic Mediterranean: a comparative analysis between Eivissa

and Sardinia” . She was appointed Beatriu de Pinós/Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona between 2014 and 2016 and she undertook a project

entitled “ Change and continuity in the cemeteries of the Phoenician and Punic world:

funerary rituals and conceptions of the body”.

She has also been awarded with funds from the DAAD

(German Academic Exchange Service) to be visiting scholar at the Eberhard-Karl Universität

Tübingen in 2006, 2010 and 2014. She has joined the Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and

the Ancient Wolrd (Brown University) as visiting scholar in April-May 2015.

She has been involved in several national and international I+D+ i, and, she is also a member of the research group ARSMAYA (GIUV2013-09) leaded by  Cristina Vidal (Universitat de València) that deals with the documentation, value and diffusion of cultural heritage.  

Currently, she is working on art and iconography of the Iron Age Mediterranean from a embodied and gender perspective. More specifically she is specialised in coroplastic art from a material culture perspective.

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María Elvira Mocholí Martínez earned her Ph.D. from Universitat de València in Art History. She received a fellowship at the Department of Art History of this university and conducted research stays at the Warburg Institute in London. After more than a decade of professional activity in the field of cultural tourism, in 2016 he resumed his teaching and research function in the Department of Art History of the University of València, where she currently is as an assistant professor. She is secretary of the Imago journal, edited by the Sociedad Española de Emblemática.

Her research concentrates on the study of the medieval image in all its aspects (relics and reliquaries, miniatures, etc.) to carry out an analysis and interpretation of it in its cultural context, with special attention to the sculptural imagery of Mary in the ancient kingdom of Valencia. Currently, he participates in the project "The iconographic subjects: Old Testament I".

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Pascual Patuel is Professor of Art History at the University of Valencia. Degree in Geography and History (University of Valencia) and History of Art (University of Barcelona), Doctor of Art History (University of Barcelona). He is the author of books, reviews, articles, communications to congresses, curators of exhibitions and technical reports. He has dedicated most of his research activity to the artistic period commonly known as Last Tendencies, which covers the period from the Second World War to the present. The basic objective has been to focus the attention on the most innovative movements that have occurred within the Valencian Art, paying special attention to those artists or institutions that have had the best national and international projection.

This research line is divided into six basic blocks, which have been structured and concretized the dedication to this period that covers the last 60 years of Contemporary Art, in the field of plastic arts, architecture and urban planning. These blocks are the following.

A) Current artistic trends.

Basically it is destined to the study of the vanguards developed in the Valencian and Spanish period under study. Among the various publications we can mention:

– Pintura espacialista valenciana (Revista Goya, 1991).

– Pintura sígnico-gestual valenciana (Revista Goya, 1993).

– El informalismo matérico en la pintura valenciana (Diputación Provincial de Castellón, 1997).

– Geométrica valenciana (Diputación Provincial de Valencia, 1999).

– Realisme Social Valencià en la Col·lecció Martínez Guerricabeitia (Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, 2018).

B) Studies on artists with extensive trajectory

This area is dedicated to study the monographic analysis of some authors with wide resonance and significance in the current Valencian and Spanish context. Some of them have already deceased and others have an advanced career, born from the late nineteenth century until the forties of the twentieth century. They have militated in groups such as Grupo Z, Grupo Los Siete, Parpalló, Movimiento Artístico del Mediterráneo, Arte Actual, etc. We can mention:

– Vicente Pastor Pla (Diputación Provincial de Valencia, 1997).

– Joaquín Michavila (Diputación Provincial de Castellón, 1999).

– Javier Calvo (Generalitat Valenciana, 1999).

– Nassio Bayarri (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2000).

– Salvador Victoria (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2000).

– Eduardo Sales (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2002).

– Alfonso Pérez Plaza (Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Museo del Puerto de Veracruz, México, 2002).

– Agustín Albalat (Diputación Provincial de Valencia, 2002).

– Antonia Mir (Generalitat Valenciana, 2003).

– José Manaut (Generalitat Valenciana, 2004).

– José Vento González (Generalitat Valenciana, 2005).

– Fernando Peiró Coronado (Grafisa, 2006).

– Salvador Soria (Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, 2006).

– Wenceslao Rambla (Generalitat Valenciana, 2007).

– Monjalés (Consorcio de Museos de la Comunidad Valenciana, 2014).

– Salvador Montesa (Generalitat Valenciana-Fundación Chirivella Soriano, 2016).

– Isabel Oliver. 40 años de arte comprometido, 1970-2009 (Universidad de Valencia, 2019).

C) Valencian artistic groups and movements

It allows to study a whole series of groups and artistic movements of the 40s, 50s and 60s, where the development of the avant-garde in the Valencian world had been gestated. A special effort was made to locate the extensive documentation that his work had been generated among catalogs of exhibitions, monographs, diverse publications, statutes, letters, magazines, references in the press, etc.

– Grupo Z y Grupo Los Siete (Revista L'Espill, 1991).

– Grupo Parpalló (Revista Archivo de Arte Valenciano, 1990).

– Movimiento Artístico del Mediterráneo (Consell Valencià de Cultura, 1998).

– Los grupos Neos, Art Nou y Rotgle Obert en la Valencia de los años 50 (Revista Saitabi, 1995).

– Asociación Arte Actual (Revista Archivo de Arte Valenciano, 1993).

– 25 años del premio de pintura y escultura Bancaja (Bancaja, 1998).

– Salones Valencianos de Arte (Diputación de Valencia, 1999).

D) Thematic projects

These are publications that analyze a monographic and specific theme:

– Diccionario de Artistas Valencianos del Siglo XX (Albatros, 1999).

– Paisaje Valenciano en el siglo XX (Generalitat Valenciana, 2002).

– Música y Arte (Ayuntamiento de Valencia, 2004).

– Arte actual a la comarca de l'Horta Sud de Valencia (CAM-Mancomunidad e Instituto de Estudios de l'Horta Sud de Valencia, 2003).

– Repertorio Bibliográfico de Artistas Valencianos Contemporáneos Seleccionado y Comentado (Diputación de Valencia-Universidad de Valencia, 2005 y ss.).

– La luz de las imágenes. Lux mundi Xàtiva 2007 (Generalitat Valenciana, 2007).

– Pabellón de la Santa Sede (Nunciatura Apostólica en España. Expo Zaragoza, 2008).

– Diccionario Biográfico Español (Real Academia de la Historia, 2009).

E) Modern Art Studies

It corresponds to studies related to international art of the period between the sixties of the twentieth century and the twenty-first century that have already taken place. They are the result of stays at the University of Toulouse and at the University of the Colorado State (USA). They allowed to access a significant volume of documentation and documentary sources that have allowed to analyze in depth this period. The intention is to offer, to the art students and people interested in these stages of art history, diachronic studies with historiographical criteria:

– Arquitectura Actual (Tirant Humanidades, 2016).

– Arte Actual (Universidad de Valencia, 2016).

F) Global visions about Contemporary Valencian Art

– Architecture and urban development of the University of Valencia Blasco Ibáñez Campus (Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 2014).

– Arte Valenciano en el Franquismo, 1939-1975 (Universidad de Valencia-Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2019).

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Sagunt, 1962. PhD thesis El individuo exterior. Figuras y espacios en la ilustración gráfica del siglo XIX (The external individual. Figures and spaces in the graphic illustration of the Nineteenth-century) (2007).

His research can be framed within the theoretical field of visual studies and, focusing on the historical interpretations of 19th and 20th century European painting and photography, aims to open the cultural connections between the history of Aesthetics and technical epistemologies. He took part in the I+D+i Project "The artistic life in Valencia (1880-1936). Sources for a dictionary of artists". (HAR2009-14480). In 2010 he published his PhD dissertation in the book ‘Graphic illustration in the 19th century. Functional and dysfunctional features’ (La ilustración gráfica del siglo XIX. Funciones y disfunciones). Since then, he has been invited to take part in the Workshop on Satirical, Caricature, and Graphic Illustration (ASCIGE) at the Nouvelle Sorbonne University, Paris and regularly collaborates in International Arts Festivals such as Incubarte (6 and 7) and Perifèries 13. Committed to making contemporary art accessible to all, he has participated in outreach programmes at the Cañada Blanch Foundation (Fundación Cañada Blanch), the Contemporary Culture Centre of Valencia (Centre de Cultura Centemporània del Carme) and the Valencian Institute of Modern Arts (IVAM). He has also published various critics of contemporary artists and develops curatorial tasks at the University of Valencia and the Casa Museu Benlliure. Valencia.

Associate lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Valencia, and Cultural Heritage Technician at the FGUV. In recent years, he has developed his work around the study of the history of architecture and cultural heritage.

With a PhD in Art History from the University of Valencia, in 2011 he was awarded the Senyera Prize for Historical Research by Valencia City Council for his work on architecture in Valencia between the end of the Civil War and the flood of 1957, which led to the publication of the book Arquitectura y espacio urbano en Valencia, 1939-1957 (Valencia City Council, 2012). He is also the author of several books and articles on the history of Valencia, its architecture and urban planning, during the first six decades of the 20th century. He has also published several works on the study, research, cataloguing and dissemination of the cultural heritage of the University of Valencia.

In 2021, together with the architect Amando Llopis, he won the COACV 2021 Architecture Prize for his work in disseminating the figure of the architect Javier Goerlich Lleó, through the curatorship of the exhibition on this architect.

Jorge Sebastian Lozano is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art of the University of Valencia since 2014, in whose Master of Cultural Heritage he had been a visiting professor since 2006. He has received research grants from the Real Colegio Complutense of Harvard University, in 2017 and 2018.

His research as a historian spans a variety of fields. He devoted his dissertation to the visual representation of gender in the Spanish monarchy of the Early Modern Age, publishing several articles and essays on the topic. More recently, he has dedicated special attention to the painter Sofonisba Anguissola, through various publications and collaborations.

Additionally, he has taught multiple courses on the application of ICT to the study and dissemination of historical heritage. Since 2018 he is Technical Manager SILKNOW, a research project funded by the European Commission (programme Horizon2020).

He has also organized many exhibitions and conferences about contemporary art, mainly in Fundación Mainel.

Graduate in Geography and History MA (Universitat de Valencia, Spain, 1986)

PhD (History: Art History) (Università degli studi di Bologna, Italy, 1988)

Research Fellow Spanish College (Bologna, Italy) (1987-1988)

Researcher Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (FPI programme) at Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universitat de Valencia (1988-1991)

Assistant Professor (Profesor Asociado) at Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universitat de Valencia (March 1991- September 1996)

Associate Professor (Profesor titular) Art History, Universitat de Valencia (September 1996-September 2012)

Full Professor (Catedratico) Art History: Medieval Art, Universitat de Valencia (September 2012-present day)

Visiting professor Universitat de Girona and Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

My main research interests are Late medieval and Early Renaissance architecture, Art of the Crown of Aragon in an European context; Reception of art and identities in late medieval Iberia.

Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual has a Degree in Art History and Journalism. Phd in Geography and History from the Universitat de València and PHD in Art History from the Universitat Politècnica de València.  Master in Development Cooperation with the speciality of International Humanitarian Aid by the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló. He is Currently Professor of the Department of Art History at the Universitat de València. Dean of International Relations, Quality and Educational Innovation at the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universitat de València. His line of research for almost two decades has been the material, cultural and symbolic study of color in Ancient Mesoamerica, with special emphasis on Mayan culture. His most recent research focuses on the binomial "Materiality and Meaning", applied to the colors, fragrances and textures of different cultures of the ancient world, with the aim of investigating the issue of sensory perception through art and the ritual (public and private). In parallel, his training and experience in International Cooperation has allowed him in his projects and research, mostly focused on the Mayan area (Central America), combining the binomial Cultural Heritage and Local Development. Between 2009 and 2014 he was an autonomic Vice-President of International Cooperation and Humanitarian Diplomacy in the Spanish Red Cross – Comunidad Valenciana. He Has experience in Central America (Mexico and Guatemala), West Africa (Burkina Faso, Niger) and Asia (Sub-Continent India), especially linked to groups of children and women.

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