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, 1967. Degree in Geography and History (1990) and a PhD in Art History (2010) from the Universitat de València. 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. Throughout this period he has combined this activity with teaching as an associate lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of Valencia. In 2013 he obtained a position as assistant professor and since 2018 he has been a full professor. He has been an elected member of the Senate since 2014, where he has been a member of several university management bodies, such as the Governing Council, the Statutes Committee and the Claustro Board. Between 2018 and 2023 he was director of the cultural heritage area of the Universitat de València.

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/2022) 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 Director del Departament d'Història de l'Art de la Universitat de València.

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”.

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Albert Ferrer Orts (Meliana, 1965) graduated in Geography and History -specialization in Art History- (1989) at the Universitat de València-Estudi General, institution in which he received his doctorate in 2004 thanks to a thesis that won the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in 2005.

He has been a Secondary Teacher (2000-2013) and associated PDI in the Department of Art History of the Valencian Estudi General (2006-2013), professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Chile in Talca, Chile (2013-2014) and full professor of the Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación (Facultad de Arte) in Valparaíso, Chile (2014-2015). Accredited by the ANECA to university professor in 2014, since 2015 he works as a PDI assistant doctor in the Department of Art History of the Universitat de València. Since September 1, 2018, he is the initiative leader of the Unisocietat program (vice-rector for Territorial Projection and Society, of the same academic institution).

His lines of research have focused on the art and architecture of l'Horta Nord, the architecture and the sgraffito decoration of the 17th century in the Kingdom of Valencia, the Carthusian history and art of the former Province of Catalonia, particularly in the Valencian area, and Valencian painting of the sixteenth century. Lately, he has also dealt with the origins of art history in Chile and some of its museums and collections.

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Vanesa García López de Andújar holds a Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Zaragoza with an extraordinary award from the Carlos Riba program, and a degree in Architecture from UPV with a Master's degree in Architectural Heritage Conservation, specializing in Management. Additionally, she also holds the title of Professional Expert in Advanced Technologies for the Management and Documentation of Cultural Heritage.

Her professional trajectory focuses on new technologies applied to heritage conservation and management, sustainable development-related heritage, as well as management of built heritage and heritage education.

She has received training in international cooperation and has conducted research linked to cooperation efforts, benefited from two scholarships in Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico), and Flores, Petén (Guatemala).

Currently, she is a Predoctoral Researcher in Training as part of the project "Gender Relations, Identity, and Transgenerationality in Maya Culture. Interdisciplinary Approaches for Constructing New Narratives about Maya Past and Present (ReGIT-Maya)" and is a member of the Arsmaya Research Group (UV) and the Joint Research Unit, Heritage, and Sustainable Development (UV-UPV).

She has also participated in other research projects such as "Digital Alliances in the Era of Intelligent Cultural Tourism: Safeguarding and Immersive Multisensory Narration in (Im)Material Cultural Heritage of Hygeia-Roma Hispana. CPI-23-005", co-financed by the State Research Agency – AEI –, by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and by the "European Union– NextGenerationEU" – Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan.

Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer Lozano studied at the University of Valencia and got her PH D in Art History in 1995 under the direction of prof. Joaquin Berchez. She has also a degree on English Studies. She got a Master's Degree in Architectural Sciences in Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings in the Centre d’Études de la Conservation du Patrimoine Architectural et Urbain de la Universidad of Leuven, Bélgium (1995), under the supervision of prof. Raymond Lemaire and Krista de Jonge. Professor of History of Art, she has been the coordinator of the Degree since march 2010 and is now coordinator of the Doctoraal Programme in History of Art. She has directed many PH d thesis as well as Master theses. She has participated in over 8 research projects, including the National Program I+D, with an actual project of Geographies of the artistic mobility. Valencia at Modern Times, as well as in international projects as the Mencia Research Project linked to the Getty Research Institute.  Her main field of studies is linked to the artistic and architectonic activities in Spain in medieval and modern times, in several aspects as construction techniques, works of art and architecture, artists culture, travelsetc. She has taught in several universities and participated in international congresses. She got a Senior Research grant from the Fulbright Comission for a stay at Harvard University. 

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Graduate in Art History and Higher Professor of Music, she has been a research scholarship recipient from the Department of Art History of the University of Valencia thanks to the University Teacher Training Program of the Ministry of Education. In 2011 she presented her European Doctorate thesis “El fuster, definition of an office in medieval Valencia” directed by Dr. Amadeo Serra within the framework of the research project HUM-2004-5445-ARTE “Architecture under construction in the Valencian area in medieval and modern times.

She received the Senyera Prize for Scientific Research, the honourable mention in 2011, and also the Demetrio Ribes UVEG-FGV Award in its 8th Edition in 2011.

She has carried out study abroad stays at the Hertzian Library of the Max-Planck Institute in Rome and in the Laboratoire de Archéologie Médiévale Méditerranéenne of the French Center National de la Recherche Scientifique in Aix-en-Provence. In 2010 she directed the research project “Historical-artistic study of the San Vicente de la Roqueta de València building” funded by Municipal Urban Actions S.A. (Valencia), linked to the restoration heritage. In the line of history of construction research in the Middle Ages, she has participated in the project “Houses and Cities built in Earth. Conservation, significance and urban quality within the Culture 2000 Program of the European Union, and she has collaborated in conferences organized by the “Laboratoire de Medievistique Occidentale de Paris (UNIR 8589 Paris 1-CNRS).

In 2010 she directed the nationally funded research project linked to the restoration and dissemination of heritage. She has been a member of the emerging research group GV / 2018 // 117 for the realization of the R + D + i project “History and city. Social dynamism and urban transformation in Valencia from a comparative perspective (15th-18th centuries). She has been a member of the research group AICO / 2020/044 dedicated to the study of “L'espai domèstic i la cultura material en el regne medieval de València. “An interdisciplinary vision (13th-16th centuries)”. She is a member of the Erasmus + Ka2 project (0830060) “Women Legacy. Our cultural heritage for Equity.”

As a Senior Professor of Music she has focused her interests on musicological research, both in musical heritage and in the presence and significance of music in Valencia in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Currently she is a Permanent Labour Professor in the Department of Art History at University of Valencia. Her main lines of research focus on artistic production in carpentry in the medieval period; architecture and its reflection in Gothic painting; material culture and identity in the Middle Ages and its representation in the figurative arts; literature as a source for the study of Art History; the feminine legacy in artistic production.

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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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Mariángeles Pérez-Martín holds a PhD in Art History (2019, cum laude) and a Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies (2015) from the University of Valencia. She won the National Award for a Bachelor's Degree in Art History (2012) and the Extraordinary Award for a Master's Degree in Art History and Visual Culture, UVEG (2013). Her research focuses on the field of Women's History and Contemporary Art. She has published the book Ilustres e ilustradas. Académicas de Bellas Artes ss. XVIII-XIX (Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). She is Principal Investigator of the Project Art, Historiography and Feminisms (arthistFEM), University of Valencia (GIGE2022/130), funded by the Conselleria of Education, Universities and Employment, Generalitat Valenciana (2023-2024). Member (2022) and Coordinator of the TrencArt Educational Innovation Project. Trencant la Història. Images, texts and contexts for equality in the History of contemporary art (PIEE-3326371/2024), University of Valencia, academic year 2024-2025. Member of the VALuART research group. Valencia, university and art. Art, museums and visual culture, from 1750 to the present, GIUV2015-224 UVEG; and of Relecturas. Museum itineraries in a gender key, UVEG. Collaborator of the R&D project Artists in the Spanish cultural scene and their relationship with Europe, 1803-1945, University of Zaragoza (Ministry of Science, 2021-2025). She has been a member since 2018 of MAV-Women in the Visual Arts, of which she has been Territorial Coordinator (acv) (2021-2024); of the AEIHM-Spanish Association for Research in the History of Women (2016-present) and of the CEHA-Spanish Committee for the History of Art (2015-present). She is currently Head of Initiatives of Activa Cultura UV (2024).

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Profesor Titular de Universidad. Premio extraordinario de Licenciatura y de Doctorado. Investigación centrada preferentemente en el Arte Valenciano de los siglos XVII a XIX. 

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Pablo Sánchez Izquierdo (Alicante, 1990) earned his PhD in Art History at the Universitat de València (2020), where he is currently teaching since 2023. He has worked at the Museo de Bellas Artes Gravina de Alicante (2014-2015) and he has taught at the Universidad de Oviedo (2021).

He obtained a predoctoral grant (2015-2019) and a postdoctoral contract (2022-2023), both funded by the Spanish Education Ministry. He has carried out four research stays at the Universitat de Barcelona (2017), the Meadows Museum at the Southern Methodist University at Dallas (2018), at the UNED (2022-2023) and at the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University (2024).

His research is framed within two main fields: the urban studies, and the orientalism during the XIXth and XXth centuries.

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.