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Second lecture in the series on the exhibition The Collection of the Museu de Belles Arts, Valencia: Between Bosch and Sorolla at the FMCMP Madrid Centre.

How does a city become one of the great art centres of the day? That is the question Matilde Miquel Juan, senior lecturer in the Art History Department at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, ponders in this lecture as she explores the birth and promotion of International Gothic painting in Valencia and the development of the city during the 15th century.

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Matilde Miquel Juan is a senior lecturer in the Art History Department at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She has a degree in Art History from the Universidad de Valencia (2000), where she obtained an outstanding award for her dissertation and graduated top of her class. In 2006 she obtained a European PhD from the same university, supervised by Amadeo Serra Desfilis and Miguel Falomir Faus, obtaining an outstanding award for her thesis. Between 2013 and 2015 she was the lead researcher for the project HAR 2012-32720: The Training of the Painter and the Practice of Painting in the Spanish Kingdoms (1350–1500), and between 2019 and 2022 she was the joint lead researcher with the lecturer Olga Pérez Monzón for the project Court and Courts in the Spanish Late Gothic: Narrative, Memory and Synergies in the Visual Language.

All lectures take place at 6.30 pm in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis. Advance ticket bookings: reservas@fmcmp.com. Tickets (one per person) can also be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. For any incident, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com