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This website is part of the R&D project "Court and Courts in Late Gothic Spain II. Legitimacy, Agency, and Materiality in Visual Language" (PID2024-156971NB-100) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities/State Innovation Agency/10.13039/501100011033/ and ERDF/EU funds.
Our objective is the study of Late Gothic Spain, particularly within the Crown of Castile, focusing on visual culture as expressed especially in pictorial language, both in its aesthetic (technical and visible) and political and propagandistic interpretations.
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What we focus on
Study of key works of the late Gothic period
Technical and visual studies
The female artistic universe
The Code of Art
From Brand to Trace
News Briefs
Research Seminar. Traces of the Workshop: The Gothic *monteas* of the Seu Vella in Lleida.
On October 20, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM, our colleague Víctor López Lorente will present this interesting seminar in the Salón de Grados (Azcárate Classroom) at the UCM Faculty of Geography and History.
19th Complutense Conference on Medieval Art: Hispanic Cathedrals in Context—Identities, Hierarchies, Reuses, and Memories.
On September 30 and October 1, 2026—marking the eighth centenary of the Toledo Cathedral—Hispanic cathedrals will be revisited during the 19th *Jornadas Complutenses* (Complutense Conference), to be held at the UCM Faculty of Geography and History.
Information and Program (in Spanish)
International Symposium. Workshops, Academies, and Knowledge: Artistic Training between the 15th and 19th Centuries.September 24 and 25.
The symposium will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Valladolid on September 24 and 25. Our colleague Víctor Daniel López Lorente will participate on the 24th with the paper "Workshop, Drawing, and Knowledge: The Training of Artisans in the Crown of Aragon (15th–16th Centuries)."
Upcoming Publication
It is a pleasure to announce that in the coming months the publishing house La Ergástula will publish the doctoral thesis of our colleague Cristina Castro Jara.