Editorial Contributor
María Suárez Pérez
María Suárez Pérez was born in Córdoba and studied art history at the Universidad de Córdoba and the Université d'Orléans, followed by a master's in cultural heritage management, conservation and outreach at the Universidad de Valencia and the IVAM. She spent nine years studying and working in France, mostly in Paris. She interned in the conservation department of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, assisted a contemporary art specialist who organised auctions at Drouot in Paris, and began professional guide training in French. Back in Córdoba she holds the official tourist guide licence and has taught art history and French privately. Her pieces look at Córdoba's museums, monuments and art collections through that training: how a collection was assembled, what a building's decoration shows about who commissioned it, and what visitors tend to walk past.
Credentials
Art history degree, master's in cultural heritage management, official tourist guide licence; museum and auction-house experience in France.
art history museums art collections fine arts
2 articles published across 1 topic
Published Work
2 pieces in total. The latest from each topic, newest first.
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Article
How Romantic Travellers Read Córdoba's Mezquita in the 1800s
How Gautier, Ford and De Amicis, three Romantic travellers, wrote up Córdoba's Mezquita: what they praised, what they got wrong and what you can still see.
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Article
Mateo Inurria and the Bronze Horseman of Las Tendillas
Mateo Inurria (1867-1924) sculpted the Gran Capitán of Las Tendillas, worked on the Mezquita and ran Córdoba's art school. Here is where his work survives.