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Department of Geography, History and History of Art


GARRIGA RIERA, Joaquim

Professor in History of Modern Art
Director of the History of Art of the Renaissance and the Baroque Research Group
Member of the HUM 2006, 1204-C02-01 research project: Catalonia at the European crossroads of the arts of the Renaissance
Research lines: European Renaissance art; History of perspective; Catalan art in the modern period; Historical-artistic heritage of Catalonia

He has focused his research on the theme of Renaissance art in Europe, especially in Italy and Catalonia. He has studied treatises and other writings from the modern European period dealing with artistic activity; he researches the roots of modern procedures for the representation of perspective and their dissemination in painters’ workshops in the 15th and 16th centuries, particularly in environments with deep artisan traditions; he studies architecture (religious, civil, rural), sculpture and painting from the Renaissance period in Catalonia, in technical and aesthetic terms, as well as from a socio-economic and cultural perspective; he participates in scientific dissemination and documentation studies of the historical-artistic heritage of Catalonia. He directs the History of Art of the Renaissance and the Baroque Research Group.
Publications
  • Garriga, J. (1983). Renacimiento en Europa (Fuentes y Documentos para la Historia del Arte, IV). Barcelona: Gustavo Gili
  • Garriga, J. (1986). L’època del Renaixement, s. XVI (Història de l’art català, IV). Barcelona: Edicions 62
  • Garriga, J. (1992). Qüestions de perspectiva en la pintura hispànica del segle XVI. Barcelona: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona (ed. microfitxa)
  • Garriga, J. (1994). "La intersegazione de Leon Battista Alberti", D'Art, nº 20. Barcelona, pp. 11-57
  • Garriga, J., and Martín, J. J. (eds.) (1996). Catàleg d'escultura i pintura dels segles XVI, XVII i XVIII. Època del Renaixement i el barroc (Fons del Museu Frederic Marès, 3). Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona
  • Garriga, J. (1996). "Dipingere lontano da Piero: la resa spaziale di Pedro Berruguete e i modi 'prospettici' artigianali", Dalai, M., i Curzi, V. (eds.), Piero della Francesca tra arte e scienza. Venezia: Marsilio Editori, pp. 475-512
  • Garriga, J., and Bosch, J. (1997). El retaule de la Prioral de Sant Pere de Reus. Reus: Edicions del Centre de Lectura - Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya 
  • Garriga, J. (2001). "Joan de Borgonya, pintor del XIXº capítulo de la orden del Toisón de Oro", Belenguer, E. (ed.), De la unión de coronas al Imperio de Carlos V, vol. III. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoración de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, pp. 121-180
  • Garriga, J. (2003). "L’arquitectura religiosa gòtica del segle XVI", L’art gòtic a Catalunya. Arquitectura (Catedrals, monestirs i altres edificis religiosos, 2), vol. II. Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, pp. 262-287
Contact details
E-mail: joaquim.garriga@udg.edu
Office: 4th floor
Tel: 972 41 81 04

Courses taught
Italian art in the 16th century. The art of Michelangelo
History of Modern Art in Catalonia