Laia Cutrina

She is a PhD candidate in Art and Musicology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she is working on her doctoral thesis entitled La policromía románica en la escultura arquitectónica de los Condados Catalanes. Aplicación, significación y paralelos transfronterizos del color durante los siglos XII – XIII, under the supervision of professors Manuel Castiñeiras and Carles Sánchez. The Generalitat de Catalunya conferred her a predoctoral grant (FI-DGR Agaur) and she is currently working in the framework of the Consolidated Research Group (SGR 2017 – 231) MAGISTRI CATALONIAE – Estudis culturals de la Mediterrània Medieval (s. XI – XV). Her lines of research focus mainly on the study of Romanesque art in the Crown of Aragon, developing pioneering research on the application and significance of polychromy on stone and wood. Her Final Degree thesis: Descubriendo el color: la policromía a la escultura arquitectónica románica de la Corona de Aragón (2018) stands out in this sense. Her Master’s thesis also continued along the same lines throughout the study of the Majesties and painted wooden crosses of the Catalan Romanesque, with the title Las Majestades y las cruces pintadas. The application and significance of colour in Romanesque wood sculpture (2019). She combines her studies with her work as a tourist guide at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll.