Fitxa persona

Francesc Granell Sales (Alfara del Patriarca, 1993) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Art History at the Universitat de València. In 2015 he completed the Degree in Art History at the UV and a year later a Master's Degree in Art History and Visual Culture in the same university. In 2018 he obtained a PhD contract funded by the Generalitat Valenciana and the European Social Fund.Then he carried out his thesis "L'aura de la memòria. La imatge de Jaume I en la València baixmedieval (ca. 1338 - ca. 1538)", presented in July 2022. Since that moment he has been awarded with two postdoctoral contracts: Margarita Salas (Ministerio de Universidades) and APOSTD 2023 (Generalitat Valenciana).

His topic research is the visual culture in the late Middle Ages. He has studied royal images, pictorial representations of Jews and Muslims and now he is analysing the late medieval "portraits" in the Hispanic territories.