Iban Redondo Parés
Iban holds a PhD in Art History, a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Deusto, and a graduate degree in Art History from the University of London. He completed a Master's degree in International Business at the University of Central Lancashire and a Master's degree in Advanced Studies in Spanish Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he defended his doctoral thesis in 2019: "The Art Market between Flanders and Castile during the Reign of Isabella the Catholic (1474-1504): Routes, Merchants, Clients, and Works." His most recent conferences include: "Tracing the Marks: The Role of Merchant Marks in Art History (15th-17th Centuries)" at the Marks on Art Symposium: Brands and Stamps on Early Modern Paintings (The Hague, 2025); and "The Image of the Merchant and the Money Changer (15th-16th Centuries)" at the Perspectives on Trade from the History of Art: Currency and Money (Madrid, 2025). "Merchants and the Art Market in the First Globalization (15th-16th Centuries)" (San Sebastián, 2022); "Successful Artistic Models in the First Globalization (15th-16th Centuries)" in The Fourth Dimension: Time, Memory, and Identity in Late Gothic Painting (Madrid, 2021). He was a member of the organising committee of the International Symposium on Artistic Rhetoric in Late Gothic Castile: The Funerary Chapel of Álvaro de Luna in Context, and of the coordinating committee of the IX Complutense Conference on Medieval Art: Seeing and Creating. Workshops and Painting Markets in Gothic Spain (1350-1500), UCM, 2015. He research focuses on the European late medieval art trade, the valuation of altarpieces and works of art, and the role played by merchants, their trademarks, and commercial signs. His main publications are: The Art Market between Flanders and Castile in the Time of Isabella I (1474-1504), Madrid, La Ergástula, 2020; Merchant Marks in Castile and Europe (15th-16th Centuries), Medina del Campo, Fundación Museo de las Ferias, 2020; "Successful Artistic Models during the First Globalization (15th - 16th Centuries)" in The Copy and its Uses in Late Gothic Painting. Time, Memory and Identity (2023), pp. 169-194; "There are several recipes, but I advise you to buy ready-made colors with your own money. The Commercial Process of Hispanic Art in the 15th Century", in Market Routes, Art Routes. Materials, Procedures and Artists in the Pictorial Configuration in the Mediterranean of the 15th Century (2022), pp. 13-59; "Castilian merchants and the art trade in the first globalization (15th-16th centuries): A complex journey," in Art and Globalization in the Hispanic World from the 15th to the 17th Centuries (2020), pp. 99-114; "Cost of materials. The value of the Luna altarpiece" in Artistic Rhetoric in Late Gothic Castile. The Funeral Chapel of Álvaro de Luna in Context (2018), pp. 461-479; "Merchant marks and paper watermarks as the origin of printer's marks. An approach" in Twelve centuries of the materiality of the book. Studies on manuscripts and printed works between the 8th and 19th centuries (2017), pp. 221-238; and has written the biography of Jofre Ibáñez de Sasiola for the online Spanish Biographical Dictionary of the Royal Academy of History. He is currently an honorary collaborator of the Department of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid.