Project team

Academic coordinator of the Nostra et Mundi project. Professor of Art History at the University of Valladolid. PhD, cum laude, from the same university with Extraordinary Doctorate Award and degree in Art History, with National Award for the End of University Studies. Honorable Mention in the Marqués de Lozoya Cultural Research Awards (Ministry of Culture, 2005). She has done research in centers such as: C. W. Post Long Island University (New York), The Courtauld Institute (London), The Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) or the Victoria & Albert Museum (London). Among his books are: La enajenación del patrimonio en Castilla y León: 1900-1936, vol. I and II, Junta de Castilla y León, 2008; La destrucción del patrimonio artístico español. W. R. Hearst “el gran acaparador”, Cátedra, 2012; De Fuentidueña a Manhattan. Patrimonio y diplomacia en España (1952-1961), Cátedra, 2023 -the latter two together with J. M. Merino de Cáceres-. His research focuses on the study of art collecting and the dispersion of heritage.

She is currently Professor of Modern History at the University of Burgos. President of the Spanish Foundation of Modern History. Director of the Department of Modern History at the University of Burgos. Member of the Research Commission of the University of Burgos. Director of the Research Chair of the Fundación de Castilla y León - University of Burgos (since 2011). Member of the Board of Trustees of the General Archive of Simancas. Member of the Scientific Committee of the V Centenary of the Communities of Castile: The Time of Freedom. Foundation of Castilla y León (2020-2023). Member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of the following journals: RUHM, Memoria y Civilización: Anuario de Historia, Studia Historica: Historia Moderna. She has been Director of International Relations at the University of Burgos.

Professor of Modern History at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Valladolid. Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), University of Chapel Hill (USA), Harvard University (FPU) (USA). Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (USA), Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Aguascalientes (Mexico) and TEC de Monterrey (Mexico). Among her latest research stays are those at the University of Chicago (2018), University of Illinois at Chicago (2022, 2023 and 2024).

She has participated in national and international conferences and given lectures in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Argentina, USA and Israel.

Researcher and Principal Investigator in several research projects. ANEP evaluator for several national research projects. Member of the National Accreditation Commission for access to university teaching bodies: ACADEMIA Program and PEP program. (ANECA). Member and President of the Committee for the Accreditation of University Professors (UNIBASQ) Quality Agency of the Basque University System. Member and Secretary of the Remuneration Complements Committee also of UNIBASQ. 

Her line of research focused on warfare in the Modern era has derived in recent years towards the study of visual culture, focusing on political, war and religious propaganda through the images of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (paintings, prints, sculptures, posters, etc.).

Jorge Araco Sánchez, support technician at the University of Burgos, has collaborated with Cristina Borreguero in the elaboration of the files of the works she has carried out.

She studied a Bachelor's Degree in History and Science of Music and a Master's Degree in Hispanic Music at the University of Valladolid. She obtained a scholarship of Initiation to research and another one of Training of Research Staff, during which she enjoyed a research stay at the University of Melbourne and completed a doctoral thesis on the vihuela in the Spanish sixteenth century, focusing on the figure of Enriquez de Valderrábano and his publication of music in cipher for vihuela Silva de sirenas (Valladolid, 1547). At the same time, he studied the specialty of Plucked String Instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque at the Professional Conservatories of Salamanca and El Escorial, specializing in the interpretation of the vihuela, the Renaissance lute and the Baroque guitar.

She combines her research activity on repertoires for plucked strings and the role of music in the Renaissance and Baroque periods with performance. He collaborates as an accompanist in the Renaissance and Baroque dance courses organized by the company Il gentil Lauro, (with whom she recorded in 2012 an album of Italian music of the fifteenth century). She participates as continuo and soloist in several early music groups and directs the ensemble Silva de Sirenas, offering concerts throughout the Spanish geography.

She has worked as a teacher in the Degree of History and Science of Music at the University of Valladolid and has lectured on early music in various Spanish conservatories, as well as in scientific conferences on Spanish Music in the Modern Age.

She currently belongs to the research group of the University of Burgos “La monarquía hispánica: guerra, cultura, sociedad y expansión ultramarina” and the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia: “Poder y representaciones culturales. Los sentidos en palacio: objetos transmisores de una cultura política de los Habsburgo españoles”.

Her lines of research are plucked stringed instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque: uses, repertoires and contexts and music in the Hispanic monarchy: royal entries, uses of instruments and music as an instrument of power and propaganda.

She works as an external collaborator for the Master's Degree in Music Performance and Research at the International University of Valencia and teaches in the Degree in History and Heritage at the University of Burgos. She teaches Music History at the Rafael Frühbeck Professional Conservatory of Burgos.

Fernando Gutiérrez Baños specialises in medieval art, especially that of the Gothic era. His subjects of study include the painting of the 13th and 14th centuries, the early development of altarpieces or the art patronage. Trained at the University of Valladolid, he has performed research stays in prestigious international centres such as the Centre de recherches historiques (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), the Warburg Institute (University of London), the Index of Christian Art (Princeton University) or the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut). He currently coordinates the University of Valladolid's GIR (Spanish acronym for Acknowledged Research Group) IDINTAR: Identidad e intercambios artísticos. De la Edad Media al mundo contemporáneo (Identity and artistic exchanges. From the Middle Ages to the contemporary world).

Predoctoral Researcher in the Department of Art History at the University of Valladolid. She holds a degree in Art History from the same university and a Master’s in Europa y el Mundo Atlántico: Poder, Cultura y Sociedad. She is a member of the Recognised Research Group of the University of Valladolid and the Consolidated Research Unit of the Regional Government of Castile and León: Arte, poder y sociedad en la Edad Moderna at the University of Valladolid. She has undertaken research stays at institutions such as The Courtauld Institute of Art (London) and Universidade Nova (Lisbon). Her publications include: Las joyas como espejo de virtudes: las mujeres y la Prudencia; La influencia de Enrique VIII y Catalina de Aragón en el inventario de joyas de 1542-1546 de su hija María Tudor; La participación de Isabel la Católica en la confección de joyas y objetos preciosos en los Libros de Cuentas de Sancho de Paredes. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the study of the use and appraisal of jewellery in the context of the Catholic Monarchs and their daughters.

A Full Professor of Art History at the University of Valladolid, he was trained at this university. After defending his doctoral thesis, he moved to the United States (1988-1989) to work with the Hispanist Jonathan Brown at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University.

He has taught and conducted research at the Università della Sapienza in Rome (1990), the Université Catholique de Angers, France (1992, 1993, 1994), the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2014), the Università de Pavia (2004) and the Università degli Studi de Perugia (2005).

His research has focused on 16th-century art, with particular emphasis on artistic relationships between Spain and, on the one hand, the Netherlands, and on the other, Italy. He has been a member of scientific committees and has served as a curator for international exhibitions. Additionally, he has directed international congresses and seminars.

As principal investigator, he has led successive national and regional R&D projects for over two decades. He was the Director of the Department of Art History (2016-2024) and, since 2013, has been the Director of the Tordesillas Center for Relations with Ibero-America at UVa. Since 2024, he has been the Director of the Boletín del Seminario de Arte y Arqueología-Arte.

Doctor from the University of Zaragoza, recipient of the Extraordinary Bachelor's Degree Award and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. He has received various predoctoral research grants (F.P.I., Institución Fernando el Católico, Caja Inmaculada). His main research focuses on Neapolitan and Spanish painting of the 17th century, having published three books and various articles on Luca Giordano, as well as several texts in scientific journals and international collective works on Neapolitan art of the second half of the 17th century. He has also explored other topics related to Baroque art in its different aspects, from the work of Diego Velázquez to the altarpieces of the New Mexico missions.

His academic career has also led him to take an interest in issues related to historical and artistic heritage, as well as illuminated manuscripts from the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, subjects on which he has published various monographs and book chapters.

He has curated two exhibitions, participated in several R&D research projects, and taken part in numerous seminars, courses, and conferences on Art History, serving on the scientific committee of some of them.

He is a member of the editorial board of Philostrato. Revista de Historia y Arte and Esperide. Cultura artistica in Calabria. He is also part of the Complutense Research Group Art and Scientific Culture: Images, Objects, and Spaces of Knowledge.