Luis

Rueda Galán

I am a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Medieval Studies, Institute of History – Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid. I got my PhD in art history from the Universidad de Jaén and the École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL in Paris (2021), thanks to a dissertation focused on the conversion of mosques in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. I have been visiting fellow at Harvard University (Houghton Library, Kathrine F. Pantzer Jr. fellow, 2022-23), the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo - IFAO (fall 2024), and Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellow at the University of Jaén (2023), and held funded short-term research fellowships (predoc), among other institutions, at the Max Planck Institute for Art History (KHI) in Florence (2019), the School of Architecture of Florence (2020) and the Gregorian University of Rome (2020).

I am interested in transcultural and interreligious phenomena in Mediterranean arts and architecture during the Middle Ages and the early Modern period, regarding mostly the reception of Arab, Islamic and, especially, Andalusi cultures in Christian Europe. I devote part of my research to the image of the Temple of Jerusalem in European arts, as well as the influence of Leonardo da Vinci's work on Spanish Renaissance architecture and science.