Mª Jesús López Montilla
María Jesús holds a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Master's degree in Hispanic Medieval Studies, and a Bachelor's degree in Art History from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She participated in the UCM 20-21 Service-Learning Project: Dispersed Heritage. Gothic Painting in Context. She is a collaborating professor at the Elba Center for Artistic Studies. She has participated in the Research Seminar of the "Architecture and Integration of the Arts in the Middle Ages" Group with the lecture "Mater Spiritualis Christi. The Experience of Faith in Late Medieval Female Monasteries," Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), 2022, and in the II Doctoral Seminar in Medieval Art History: New Perspectives, UCM, 2017. She has presented at the Congress "Women in Action: Female Artistic Practices in the Hispanic Middle Ages," National University of Distance Education (UNED), 2025; at the XVI Complutense Conference on Medieval Art: "In Feminine. Art and Women in the Middle Ages," UCM, 2023; at the XIV Complutense Conference on Medieval Art: "(Im)materiality in Medieval Art," UCM, 2021; at the II International Congress on the Medieval and Modern Book: "The Materiality of the Book," University of Zaragoza, 2016; and at the Conference "The Medieval Illustrated Book: From Codex to Printed Book," UCM. 2016; and at the 1st Doctoral Seminar in Medieval Art History: Developments and Methodologies, UCM, 2016; and speaker at the International Symposium Artistic Rhetoric in Late Gothic Castile: The Funeral Chapel of Álvaro de Luna in Context, UCM, 2016. She belonged to the organizing group of the International Symposium Artistic Rhetoric in Late Gothic Castile: The Funeral Chapel of Álvaro de Luna in Context, and to the coordinating group of the 9th Complutense Conference on Medieval Art. Seeing and Creating. Workshops and Pictorial Markets in Gothic Spain (1350-1500), UCM, 2015. She has published Praying in Solitude. The Psalter in Late Medieval Female Devotion (La Ergástula, Madrid, 2024), and The Book of Hours. A Selected Book of Private Devotion (La Ergástula, Madrid, 2012) and contributed to collective works: 'Furnishing prayer. The gestural practice of prayer in the Late Middle Ages'. (in Noelia Silva Santa Cruz, Francisco de Asís García García, Laura Rodríguez Peinado and Raúl Romero Medina, eds. (In)materiality in medieval art. Madrid: Trea, 2023, pp. 163-178); "«Journeys» of books in the Late Middle Ages. "Market and Distribution" (in Twelve Centuries of the Materiality of the Book: Studies on Manuscripts and Printed Works between the 8th and 19th Centuries, col. …in culpa est no. 4, University of Zaragoza, 2017, pp. 35-53) and "Representing Luxury: Clothing, Jewelry, and Liturgical Furnishings in the Luna Altarpiece" (in Olga Pérez Monzón; Matilde Miquel Juan; María Martín Gil (eds.), Artistic Rhetoric in Late Gothic Castile: The Funeral Chapel of Álvaro de Luna in Context, Silex, 2018, pp. 437-459). Review of the book Seeing and Creating: Workshops and Painting Markets in Gothic Spain (1350-1500) in Philostrato. Art Magazine, no. 3 (2018), pp. 100-102. Contributor to the assembly and writing of DJESER. Art Magazine. Archaeology and Egyptology and Webmaster and designer of the website for the project Corte y Cortes en el Targotótico Hispano.