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Department of Geography, History and History of Art


MOLINA FIGUERAS, JOAN


Lecturer in History of Mediaeval Art
Research lines: Gothic iconography; Art and power in the Middle Ages; Cathedrals
Joan Molina Figueras (Girona, 1965). Awarded a Doctorate in History of Art by the Autonomous University of Barcelona for his thesis entitled Images and ideas in Late Gothic Catalan painting (1996). He has been a lecturer at the University of Girona since 1990 and mainly studies the meanings and functions of architecture and the visual arts in Catalonia in the Gothic Period. He is currently working on two research lines: the beginnings of the Gothic Cathedral of Girona and the relationship between art and power in the period of Alfonso the Magnanimous. Part of the latter research work is carried out within the framework of the project entitled The European dimension of the Humanistic Latin literature of the Crown of Aragon (HUM2005-04657). I have commissioned the exhibitions “Bernat Martorell and the autumn of the Catalan Gothic period” (2003) and “Bishop Margarit and his period” (2006).
Publications
  • Molina, J. (2008). Fragments del gòtic a Girona. Girona: Diputació de Girona - Fundació Caixa Girona
  • Molina, J. (2007). "De genere militari ex utruoque parente. La nobleza eclesiástica y los inicios de la catedral gótica de Gerona", Anuario de Estudios Medievales, nº 37, pp. 741-780
  • Molina, J. (2007). "Francesc Eiximenis et les images de la ville idéale dans la Couronne d’Aragon", Gilli,. P. (ed.), Les élites lettrées et mécénat dans les pays de la Méditerranée occidentale au Moyen Age. Montpellier: pp. 74-98

  • Molina, J., Vilallonga, M., and Lucero, Ll. (2006). El Bisbe Margarit i la seva època. Girona: Fundació Caixa Girona

  • Molina, J. (2005). "Gli artisti del re", Donato, M. M. et alter (ed.), L’Artista Medievale. Atti del Convegno. Pisa: pp. 85-105

  • Molina, J. (ed.) (2003). Bernat Martorell i la tardor del gòtic català. Girona: Museu d'Art de Girona

  • Molina, J. (1999). Arte, devoción y poder en la pintura tardogótica catalana. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia
Contact details
E-mail: joan.molina@udg.edu
Office: 4th floor
 Tel: 972 41 81 05
Courses taught
History of Mediaeval Art
Mediaeval Art in Catalonia
Art and Power in the Middle Ages