Cristina Castro Jara

Cristina holds a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid (2025); a Master's degree in Hispanic Medieval Studies (2015); and a Bachelor's degree in Art History (2011) from the Autonomous University of Madrid and in Economics (1990) from the Complutense University. She has participated in the R&D project funded by the Ministry of Science: "Court and Courts in Late Gothic Spain: Narrative, Memory, and Synergies in Visual Language" (PGC2018-093822-B-IOO) and in the UCM 2020-2021 Service-Learning Project: "Dispersed Heritage: Gothic Painting in Context." She is currently a member of the ARQIMED research group. She has contributed to collective works with "Rhetoric of Luxury in the Inventories of Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza" (M.ª V. Herraéz, M.ª C. Cosmen, M.ª D. Teijeira, J. A. Moráis, eds. Bishops and Cathedrals: Art in Late Medieval Castile, Bern: Peter Lang, 2018, 315-334); and with O. Pérez Monzón in "Cardinal Mendoza Surrounded by Bishops" (M. Martín Martín, coord. LUX: The Ages of Man, 25th edition, Valladolid: Fundación las Edades del Hombre, 2021, 185-186). She is the author of the article "Urban Memory and Geopolitics of Power: Portrait of Cardinal Mendoza Surrounded by Bishops" in Medievalism, 32 (2022): 121-146. She has participated in the International Symposium on Bishops and Cathedrals. Art in late medieval Castile (León 2017) with the presentation "The rhetoric of luxury in the inventories of Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza" and at the V Conference on Research in Hispanic Medieval Studies (UAM, 2015) with the "Book of Hours of Doña Mencía de Mendoza".