On Wednesday, 17 June, Dr Lourdes de Sanjosé, a specialist in goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work, gave a lecture entitled “A Singular Work of Renaissance Silverwork in Zaragoza. The Renaissance Monstrance and Its Dual Eucharistic and Devotional Significance.”
The lecture provided an exceptional opportunity to explore one of the most significant metal works in the Casacuberta Marsans Collection: a 16th-century custodia de asiento, or standing monstrance. Sanjosé examined its formal and technical features, which are essential to understanding the work within the context of the flourishing of Renaissance silverwork in Zaragoza, as well as its uses and meanings, tracing its continued significance well into the 19th century.
About the Speaker
Dr Lourdes de Sanjosé holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Barcelona. She is a member of the Société archéologique et historique du Limousin and the Societat Catalana d’Estudis Litúrgics.
Her research focuses on goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work and on medieval enamels produced in the workshops of Silos and Limoges. She is the author of six books and numerous scholarly articles on these subjects.
She collaborates with the INHA (Institut national d’histoire de l’art) and the Louvre Museum on the preparation and publication of notices for the Corpus des émaux méridionaux in the AGORHA database.
She has also curated several exhibitions devoted to liturgical objects and has lectured at institutions including the Musée du Louvre and the Musée de Cluny in Paris; the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid; and the Société archéologique et historique du Limousin in Limoges, France.
