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Dr. Vanessa Alvarez Portugal

Assistant Professor (History Of Art)
      
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Dr. Vanessa Alvarez Portugal

Assistant Professor (History Of Art)

 VANESSA.PORTUGAL@tcd.ie

 


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I have served as reviewer for the Academic Journals, Arts, MDPI. 2023
I have served as reviewer for the Academic Journals Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2018
Served as member of the Thesis' committee advisor for the PhD dissertation in History of Art: Beatriz Rodríguez Moreno. `Un umbral en el espacio doméstico barroco: Inversiones arquitectónicas y de mobiliario en un gabinete alemán del siglo XVII". MA in History of Art. History of Art Postgraduate Studies. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, 2022 2022
Served as member of the Thesis' committee advisor for the PhD dissertation in History of Art: Diana López Meléndez, `La imagen como conocimiento universal: génesis de la colección de grabados de Hernando Colón, Sevilla siglo XVI". Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, 2024" ongoing 2024
Served as member of the Thesis' committee advisor for the PhD dissertation in History of Art: Alberto Villareal Díaz de Bonilla. `Espectografías de la Concordia Oppositorum. Hacia una Fenomenología del Escenario en tanto Ars de las Imágenes-Acontecimiento". Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, 2021" ongoing. 2021
I have served as reviewer for the Academic Journals Aisthesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 2019
Served as member of the Thesis' committee advisor for the PhD dissertation in History of Art: Roger Ferrer Ventosa. `Mágica belleza. El pensamiento mágico como fundamento original de la teoría del arte'. History of Art PhD research dissertation. Universitat de Girona, Spain, 20 September 2018. 2018
Served as member of the Thesis' committee advisor for the PhD dissertation in History: Víctor Manuel Bañuelos Aquino. `Los impresos populares en el fin de los tiempos: escatología milenarista y sociedad en la literatura de cordel Mexicana (1894-1920)'. History PhD research dissertation. University of Guadalajara CUCSH, Mexico, 2019. 2019
I served as reviewer of the research project to enrol in the PhD programme of History of Art at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2016
Served as member of the Theses' committee of the BA dissertation: Gilda Arianna López Carranza. `Género y belleza femenina. Análisis histórico de Belleza: la revista de la cultura estética, México 1933-1935'. History BA dissertation Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, 10 September 2010. 2010
Served as member of the Thesis' committee advisor for the especialisation work in History of Art: Beatriz Rodríguez Moreno. `Percepción del público en un gabinete alemán con reloj del siglo XVII". Academic specialty in History of Art. History of Art Postgraduate Studies. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico. 2021, 28 May 2021"25 February 2022. 2022
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Fluent Medium Basic
German Medium Basic Medium
Italian Fluent Basic Basic
Latin Medium Basic Basic
Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent
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Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Member 2017 Current
ARTES. Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group 2020 Current
Museums Association (MA) United Kingdom Member. 2020 Current
Association for Art History Member 2022 2024
European Society for the Study of Western Esoterism (ESSWE) Member. 2023 Current
Vanessa Portugal, `The Universe at Hand, The Uses of the Hand as an Astrological Device in 18th-Century New Spain", Tea at Mephistos International Conference on Research of Occultism, Brno, Czechia, 25 October 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED  URL
Linda Báez Rubí, Emilie Carreón Blaine. José Luis Barrios Horst Bredekamp José E. Burucúa Elia Espinosa Christopher D. Johnson Didanwy Kent Trejo Nicolás Kwiatkowski Laura Malosetti Costa Philippe-Alain Michaud Johannes Neurath Luis Pérez-Oramas Spyros Papapetros Davide Stimilli Giovanna Targia Claudia Wedepohl Isabella Woldt, Aby Warburg en/sobre América: historia, sobrevivencias y repercusiones, Mexico City, Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2024, 9 - 681pp, Notes: [It includes articles in English and in Spanish], Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Vanessa Alvarez Portugal, 'Shapeshifters from America. Early Modern Discussions on Nahualism from Both Sides of the Atlantic', Melancolía, Revista de Historia del Centro de Estudios sobre el Esoterismo Occidental de América Latina, (9), 2024, p1 - 18, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Francesco de Nicolo & Laura Liliana Vargas, Trading and Smuggling of New Granada Emeralds in Southern Italy: Jewelry and Symbology in the Early Modern Period, Art in Translation, 16, (2), The University of Edinburgh, 2024, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  URL
`Las imágenes científicas de Joaquín Velázquez de Léon' in, El paraíso de fura y tena. Estudios sobre la plata en Iberoamérica de los orígenes al siglo, Mexico City, Mexico; León, Spain, 2021, pp747 - 764, [Tania Vanessa Alvarez Portugal], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Tania Vanessa Alvarez Portugal, Imágenes astrológicas en la Nueva España, Córdoba, UCO Press, 2018, 10 - 240pp, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI
Tania Vanessa Alvarez Portugal, Modelos de la imagen. El Mago del Tarot Visconti", Revista Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas,, 2018, p133 - 179, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Tania Vanessa Alvarez Portugal, Spectacle, Rhetoric and Power. The Triumphal Entry of Prince Philip of Spain into Antwerp, Revista Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 37, (106), 2015, p231 - 233, Review Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Tania Vanessa Alvarez Portugal, '`Bildwissenschaft. Una disciplina en construcción', Revista Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 36, (105), 2014, p215 - 254, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Tania Vanessa Alvarez Portugal, 'Astros festivos. Imágenes celestes en los arcos triunfales de la Nueva España, Concinnitas, Revista do Instituto da Artes da UERJ, 2013, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

Vanessa Portugal, 'Alchemy and Astrology Resources in Early Modern in Dublin', Trinity College Dublin, 2026, -, Notes: [https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a45ee2ad0dd74ead84e7cee31889ada2/edit], Digital research resource production, PUBLISHED
Vanessa Portugal, What lies at the centre? Augustinian teo-political commentaries on images of geocentrism in New Spain.", Symposium Empire of Role Models? Championing and Challenging Global Ideals in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds., University of Bologna, Italy., 19 June 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Vanessa Portugal, Mystical marriage between Nature and Grace. A Discussion on Spiritual Alchemy in an Early Modern Religious Print.", Visita Interiora., University of Warwick, Venice Centre., 17 June 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Vanessa Portugal, 'Astrology in New Spain. 17th c. Theo-political uses of astrology in St. Augustine, Nicolás Tolentino.", Research Forum: School of Histories and Humanities, 2025, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland., 11 April 2025., 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Vanessa Portugal, '"Alçando figuras" in the early modern Spanish territories overseas, an insight into the practice of divinatory astrology from New Spanish records.", TCD History of Art research Seminar., Trinity College Dublin, Ireland., 30 September 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Vanessa Portugal, Construction of identities in Colonial Latin America. An exploration from early modern visual and material culture"., Global and Transregional Studies Research Group., University of Lincoln, United Kingdom., 15 May 2024., 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Vanessa Portugal, `Miguel Cabrera and his image of a `Non"white" artist: Painting in eighteenth"century New Spain", The Construction of Identities from Material Culture in the Early Modern Americas., Renaissance Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA., 22 March 2024., 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Vanessa Portugal, `The practice of divinatory astrology in the early modern Spanish empire: `Alçar figuras" in Manila and Mexico City during the sixteenth century", Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World, Scientiae, Institute of Philosophy Czech Academy of Science, Czechia, 8 June 2023., 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Vanessa Portugal, `Allegories and classical learning in ephemeral festivities in Seventeenth-century Mexico City", "Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures", Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom,, 20 April 2023., 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Vanessa Portugal, Ulrich Pfisterer, `Transformative Potentials: Animals-humans-gods", Symposium of the Research Project Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas, Kunsthistorisches Institute and Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy., 11 January 2023., 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

  


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Award Date
Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund 2025/26 27-11-25 to 30-09-2028
Visiting Professor Fund 19-12-2025 to 1-05-2026
My research focuses on art theory, and the divinatory, alchemical, magical, and political uses of the astrological image in the Early Modern world. Relevant topics of interest include historical images of science and medicine.