Dr. Carmen Heredia Moreno
Carmen Heredia Moreno completed the licentiate degree in Philosophy and Letters (Art History Section) at the University of Seville and received her doctorate in Art History from the same university in June 1976. Parallel to her doctorate programs of study , she began teaching at the university as a teaching assistant Professor of Practical Classes in the Chair of History of Hispano-American Art. Between 1976 and 1983 she was Interim Assistant Professor in the Art department of the University of Navarra. In the latter date she became Full Professor at the University of Alcalá where she has recently obtained the Chair of History of Art.
In Alcalá she has directed several doctoral thesis and research works, some of them still in progress, as well as some summer courses and occupational training courses for graduates on Tourism and Heritage, the latter co-financed by the University and the European Social Fund. He is currently a member of the committee advisor of the yearbook of American programs of study (School of Hispano-American programs of study , CSIC), laboratory of Art (University of Seville) and Imafronte (University of Murcia), as well as of the collection Art and Artists, of the department of History of Art of the Center of Historical programs of study the CSIC.
His research work has been developed preferably in the framework different national and regional projects sponsored by public and private entities (Ministry of Education and Science research and development, Príncipe de Viana-University of Navarra-Obispado de Pamplona, board de Andalucía, etc.) and has been published in numerous publications (monographs, articles in specialized journals, communications and papers in national and international congresses, exhibition catalogs, catalogue cards, encyclopedia entries, etc.). Most of his works fall into three main lines of research: Artistic Guilds, Cataloguing and Study of Heritage and Spanish and Latin American Silverware.
Some of his works are: Estudio de los contratos de aprendizaje artístico en Sevilla a principios del siglo XVIII, Sevilla, 1974; La orfebrería en la provincia de Huelva, Huelva 1980; Orfebrería de la Catedral y del Museo Diocesano de Pamplona, Pamplona, 1978 (in partnership); Arte Hispanoamericano en Navarra, Pamplona 1992 (in partnership); Biografía de los plateros navarros del siglo XVI. Aproximación a su entorno, Pamplona 1996 and La Edad de Oro de la Platería Complutense, Madrid 2001 (in partnership). She has also co-authored the first four volumes of the Catalog Monumental de Navarra.
In recent years her research has focused on the silversmiths Juan de Arfe y Villafañe and Francisco de Alfaro, as well as on the repertoires of 16th century drawings of the Fundación Lázaro Galdiano. On these subjects he has already published several articles in the magazines Goya, file Español de Arte and De Arte or in the last volumes programs of study Silverware of the University of Murcia.
He is currently participating in the research sub project "Constructing and preserving collective loyalties. Sovereignty and elites in the Monarchy of Spain (XVI-XVII centuries)", reference letter: HAR2012-39016-C04-02, subsidized by the administrative office of State of research, development and Innovation. General Administration of research and management of the National Plan of research and development of the year 2012: Elites and agents in the Hispanic monarchy: forms of political articulation, negotiation and patronage (1506-1725).
He is also a member of the committee committee advisor of the Revista Artes Decorativas of the Catholic University of Porto (Portugal) and of the External Scientific committee of De Arte. Revista de Historia del Arte, of the University of León. He is also board member of the essay committee of the magazines Imafronte (University of Murcia) and laboratory de Arte (University of Seville).