Santiago Manzarbeitia Valle
Santiago Manzarbeitia Valle received a Ph.D. in History of Art from UCM (1997) for his thesis La pintura mural medieval en torno al Alto Campoo(Palencia, 2001). He was awarded the Outstanding Doctorate Prize 1996/97. He has been a Lecturer at the Department of the History of Art at UCM since 2010. Before that, he was a Tenured Lecturer (2003) and Associate Lecturer (2001) in the same department. He was Lecturer at the Ortega y Gasset University Institute (1989-2003).
Since 2012 he has been a member of the UCM University Institute for Religious Studies in the Philosophy Faculty, where he teaches classes for the Master’s Degree in Religious Studies.
Professional experience: He was hired by the Prado Museum to update the Prado Museum Database (1995) and by the Madrid Regional Department of Culture for the Inventory of Property of the Diocese of the Region of Madrid (1991).
Research Groups:
- Member of UCM Research Group 941299 THE MEDIAEVAL IMAGE: SPACE, FORM AND CONTENT (Faculty of Geography and History).
- Member of UCM Research Group 930250 THE MEDIAEVAL IMAGE: TEXTS AND ICONOGRAPHY (Faculty of Philology).
His main lines of research are medieval mural painting and religious iconology and iconography:
- Head researcher on the Santander/UCM Research Project Mediaeval Mural Painting and its Dissemination in the Region of Madrid, 12th to 16th Centuries. (2008-2009).
- Member of the Teaching Innovation and Quality Project “Digital Database of Mediaeval Iconography (2009-2018), with which the digital magazine Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval is associated.
- Member of the MUSACCES R&D project within the CAPIRE+B group (a multi-disciplinary group that analyses European religious iconography): dissemination of religious iconography and medieval iconography in the Prado Museum in specialist conferences and seminars (2016-2019).
- Scientific coordinator of the 11th International Complutense Symposia on Mediaeval Art: Painted on the wall. Murals as a visual support in the Middle Ages (2019).
- Member of the Santander/Complutense Research Project 2019 Transmission and Reception of the Bible: Texts and Iconography. (2019-2020).
Academic Management: He has been the Coordinator for History of Art on the UCM Erasmus Committee of the Faculty of Geography and History (2008-2013). Since 2018, he has been a member of the Doctoral Programme Committee of the University Institute of Religious Studies at the UCM Faculty of Philology
Most important publications:
- (2022) MANZARBEITIA, S., “San Cristóbal”, a Tempora Sigüenza 2022. Segontia, entre el poder y la gloria, pp. 394-397, Fundación Impulsa Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, 447 pp.
- (2020) MANZARBEITIA, S., “Espace, fonction et dévotion dans les fresques cástillianes au crépuscule du Moyen Âge. Castille versus Corse”, Fresques de Corse et de Méditerranée occidentale (XV-XVI s.) sguardi incruciati / regards croisés, pp. 154-165, Editions Eoliennes et Collectivité de Corse, Bastia, 2020, 352 pp.
- (2019) MANZARBEITIA, S., AZCÁRATE, M. and GONZÁLEZ, I. (eds.): Pintado en la pared. El muro como soporte visual en la Edad Media, Ediciones Complutense, Madrid, 499 pp.
- (2018) MANZARBEITIA, S., “Iconografía e iconología de la sibila”, Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval, Vol. X, No. 19, pp. 47-63. Madrid, printed and digital edition.
- (2015) MANZARBEITIA, S., “Pintura mural medieval y del primer Renacimiento (siglos XIII al XVI), Pintura mural en la Comunidad de Madrid, Directorate-General of Artistic Heritage, Region of Madrid, Madrid, pp. 94-153.
- (2012): AZCÁRATE, M., GONZÁLEZ, I., MANZARBEITIA, S. and MONGE, A.: “Pintura mural en el Madrid del siglo XV: la diversidad de un arte periférico”, Anales de Historia del Arte, Vol. Extra., pp.245-266.
- (2010): MANZARBEITIA, S., “El mural de San Cristobalón en la iglesia de San Cebrián de Mudá. Pintura medieval y devoción popular: del mítico Cinocéfalo al Polifemo cristiano”, Anales de Historia del Arte, Vol. Extra., pp. 291-307.
- (2010): AZCÁRATE, M., GONZÁLEZ, I., MANZARBEITIA, S. and MONGE, A.: “Las pinturas murales de la iglesia de San Pedro de Torremocha de Jarama”, Anales de Historia del Arte, Vol. Extra., pp. 149-168.
- (2007): MANZARBEITIA, S., “Censura y olvido del gusto y la devoción popular”, IMÁGENES PERDIDAS. Censura, olvido, descuido, CAIA, Buenos Aires, 2007, pp.439-449.
- (2001): MANZARBEITIA, S.: La pintura mural medieval en torno al Alto Campoo, Instituto Tello Téllez de Meneses (CECEL-CSIC), Provincial Council of Palencia, Palencia, 401 pp.
- (1990): MANZARBEITIA, S., “Las pinturas murales de la iglesia de San Clemente de Segovia”, Estudios Segovianos, Tomo XXXI, No. 87, Instituto Diego de Colmenares, Provincial Council of Segovia, CSIC, pp. 279-336.