Maria Jose Lopez Terrada

Maria Jose Lopez Terrada is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at the Faculty of Geography and History, Universitat de València. She is a member of the VALuART research group, which explores the intersections of art, museums, and visual culture from 1750 to the present.

Her research focuses on the development of Valencian floral painting during the transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism. Her doctoral work, completed at the Universitat de València, examined tradition and change in this artistic genre. Her expertise spans art historical methodologies, modern Spanish art, and the cultural contexts of visual production in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The research group VALuART emphasizes institutional and societal roles of art, particularly in university and museum settings. Her work contributes to broader understandings of regional artistic identity within national and European frameworks.

She has supervised doctoral research, notably her own thesis under Dr. Rafael Gil Salinas, though no current or former advisees are listed in the provided text. No information is available regarding external grants or funded research projects.