He studied at the University of Valencia and got his Ph.D. in Art History in 2000 with the Thesis El monasterio de San Miguel de los Reyes. Arquitectura y construcción en el ámbito valenciano de la Edad Moderna. He was appointed a Reader in 2001 and Professor in 2017.

His teaching is developed through subjects related to the Artistic Heritage, the art and architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque, and the application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in teaching and research in Art History. He has directed many Ph.D. thesis as well as Master theses.

His research focuses on the Artistic Heritage, with special attention to cultural and visual aspects, and the heritage of public works. He has led and participated in numerous research projects. He has treated the reception of the works in its development, he is interested in how art was made, used and viewed over time. Currently, he developes this focus in the R&D project “Memory, Image and Conflict in Renaissance Art and Architecture: Germanias revolt in Valencia”, Ministry of Science and Competitiveness. He has participated in numerous conferences, seminars and congresses, and he has authored numerous publications linked to the artistic and architectonic activities in Spain in modern times.

He has been editor-in-chief of Ars Longa. Cuadernos de Arte from 2009 to 2014 and he is member on the editorial board of the different journals. He has been coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Art History (UJI and UVEG, with Mention to Excellence) from 2011 to 2015, and he has been head of the Department from 2008 to 2014. He is head of the institutional chair “Demetrio Ribes” since 2017.

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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. It is part of the project HAR2017-83070-P "Geographies of the artistic mobility. Valencia at Modern Times" and the group GIUV2013-055 Art and Architecture of the Modern Age-AAEM.

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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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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.

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.