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María Rodríguez Velasco

María Rodríguez Velasco

Profesora de Historia del Arte, Universidad CEU San Pablo
Licenciada en Geografía Historia por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, especialidad Historia del Arte. Doctora en Historia del Arte por la misma Universidad (sección Arte Medieval, 2005). Ha sido Becaria Predoctoral (FPI) del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura entre 1996 y 1999, año en que comienza su labor docente en la Universidad CEU San Pablo. Actualmente es profesora titular de Historia del Arte en esta Universidad, responsable del área de conocimiento de Historia del Arte y secretaria académica del Departamento de Humanidades.Desde el curso 2019-2020 también imparte el curso La vida secreta del arte en la Universitas CEU Senioribus. Acreditada por la ACAP (2009) y con un sexenio de investigación (1999-2016). Sus principales líneas de investigación se han centrado en la miniatura medieval, el valor de las imágenes en la cultura europea y la iconografía cristiana. Fruto de sus estudios son numerosos artículos de carácter científico y participación en congresos de carácter nacional e internacional. Ha impartido numerosas conferencias sobre los temas de investigación referidos y ha realizado estancias predoctorales en la sección de manuscritos de centros de investigación italianos (Biblioteca Vaticana, B. Ambrosiana de Milán, Bibliotecas Vallicelliana y Casanatense de Roma, Archivo Capitular de Turín y Archivo del Museo Diocesano de Trento). Forma parte del Consejo Editorial de la Revista Hispania Sacra (CSIC). Forma parte del grupo de investigación La imagen medieval (UCM) y es investigadora principal del grupo de investigación ContemplArte (CEU), recientemente reconocido como grupo en consolidación en la USP.
Publicaciones más recientes:
- Libros:
Rodríguez Velasco, María (coord.): Tradición y modernidad en la obra de Marko Iván Rupnik: implicaciones teológicas, estéticas e iconográficas de los mosaicos del Centro Aletti (Roma), Madrid: CEU Ediciones, 2013. ISBN: 978-84-15949-24-4.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: Rostros creyentes para nuestra fe patriarcas, profetas y apóstoles. Madrid: Magnificat/Fleurus, 2013. ISBN: 978-84-1604100-8.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: Arriola Jiménez, María: El Credo en imágenes: El arte como manifestación de la fe. Madrid: Arzobispado de Madrid, 2013. ISBN: 978-84-933536-7-4.
Rodríguez Velasco, María; García Pérez, José M.: El Greco en Madrid: Belleza y significado. Madrid: Arzobispado de Madrid, 2014. ISBN: 978-84-93353629.

- Capítulos de libros:
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “Iconografia del Sacro Cuore di Maria. Presupposti, evoluzione e consolidamento delle immagini cordimariane”, en La Rivoluzione della tenerezza. Il cuore di Maria. Florencia: Nerbini 2020, pp. 175-197. ISBN: 978-88-6434-363-1.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “Muros vestidos de luz y color: Los mosaicos del Centro Ezio Aletti (Roma) en la Capilla del Santísimo de la Catedral de Madrid”, en Vestir la Arquitectura. Burgos: Universidad de Burgos, 2019, pp. 510-515. ISBN: 978-84-16283-64-4.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “La pintura mural y sus analogías con las miniaturas bíblicas en el contexto de la reforma gregoriana: función, símbolos y significado”, en Pintado en la Pared. El muro como soporte visual en la Edad Media. Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 2019. pp. 395-416. ISBN: 978-84-669-3606-4.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “La miniatura al servicio de la reforma gregoriana: La decoración simbólica y narrativa de las biblias gigantes o atlánticas”, en Narraciones visuales en el arte románico: Figuras, mensajes y soportes. Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia): Fundación Santa María la Real, 2017, pp. 165-197. ISBN: 978-84-17158-00-2.

- Artículos:
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “Pinceladas para la historia: La pintura como documento histórico de las guerras carlistas”, APORTES: Revista de Historia Contemporánea, vol. 34, nº100 (2019), pp. 5-38. ISSN: 2386-4850.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “Un precedente del microrrelato en la pintura del siglo XV: Discursos paralelos en los Trípticos de los Primitivos Flamencos”, Microtextualidades: Revista Internacional de Microrrelato y Minificción, nº 5 (2019), pp. 128-144. ISSN: 2530-8297.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “La Belleza en la Sagrada Familia de Antonio Gaudí: Una concepción medieval de la arquitectura reinterpretada con el lenguaje artístico de la modernidad”, Cuadernos de Arte e Iconografía, vol. 26, nº 51 (2017), pp. 119-146. ISSN: 0214-2821.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “Reinterpretación de la concepción artística y los tipos iconográficos paleocridtianos, bizantinos y románicos en los mosaicos del Centro Aletti (Roma): el programa iconográfico de la Capilla del Colegio Mayor San Pablo (Madrid, octubre de 2009)”, Hispania Sacra, vol 69, nº 140, pp. 755-764. ISSN: 0018-215X.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “Ecos en piedra de las imágenes miniadas del siglo XII: el paralelismo de tipos iconográficos entre los capiteles de Santa María la Real (Aguilar de Campoo) y la Biblia de Ávila (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Vit. 15-1), Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, vol. 34 (2016), pp. 211-230. ISSN: 0212-5544.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “Tipos iconográficos de la Última Cena y simbolismo eucarístico en las imágenes de la Última Cena”, Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval, vol. 8, nº 16 (2016), pp. 119-142. ISSN: 2254-7312.
Rodríguez Velasco, María: “Van der Weyden, constructor de espacios: las arquitecturas pintadas del Maestro Rogier”, Codex Aquilarensis, vol. 31 (2015), pp. 185-198. ISSN: 0214-896X.

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