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RCC is honored to announce this event in celebration of the legacy of Professor Serafin Moralejo.
Speakers include:
José Manuel Martínez Sierra, RCC Director
Luis Girón, Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures
Francisco Prado-Vilar, Scientific Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Santiago Cathedral Program
José Luis Moralejo (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares), Visiting Scholar at the department of the Classics at Harvard University.
"A native of Galicia and life-long resident of the city of Santiago de Compostela, Serafín Moralejo chose the city’s imposing cathedral as the center of his scholarly investigations…To the magnificent sculptural traditions of the pilgrimage route, and particularly to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela itself, Moralejo would devote the greater part of his energies….Blessed with consummate skill as a draftsman, Moralejo kept copious sketchbooks filled with elegant, detailed pen-and-ink renderings of the monuments he sought to place in historical context. His talent for drawing was harnessed to his unabashed delight in the richness of medieval imagery and not infrequently to his irrepressible and sometimes irreverent sense of humor…His published studies are thoroughly grounded in an astonishing array of humanistic references….His students remember his impressive control of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary bibliography, both specialized and theoretical, both Spanish and international…An admired and loved teacher, Moralejo often said that teaching was as much research for him as studying his books. Amongst the courses he taught at Harvard one of the most memorable was on medieval cartography, in which he introduced students to the medieval perspective on the world through the study of maps…Serafín Moralejo’s time at Harvard was all too short. In 1993, following a visiting professorship, he was the first scholar appointed to the Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professorship of Fine Arts, established to honor the distinguished painter and founder of the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, Spain…Professor Moralejo will be remembered as one of the most distinguished scholars of Spanish medieval art and a worthy successor to Arthur Kingsley Porter, the founder of scholarship on the sculpture of the Pilgrimage Roads".
Excerpts from Harvard Gazette (June 11, 2014)
Sponsor(s): Real Colegio Complutense
Contact(s): rcc@harvard.edu