Researchers

Stefanos Kroustallis

Degree in History and Archaeology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (1993), with homologation to the Spanish degree in Geography and History from the University of Salamanca, History section (1997). Diploma (1999) and degree (2019) in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (specialising in Graphic Documents) from the Escuela Superior de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales. PhD in History from the Complutense University (2005).

Currently he is working as tenure-track associate professor at the Escuela Superior de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales de Madrid (since 2017). From 2013 to 2017 he has worked as an part-time lecturer at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. From 2005 to 2012 he was a senior technician responsible for the development of the Thesaurus and Dictionaries of materials and artistic techniques, within the Domus project for the cataloging of cultural property of the Subdirectorate General of State Museums of the Ministry of Culture. Finally, over the years, he has worked as a documentalist on various museum projects, as well as a conservator and restorer of cultural assets.

His research activity has focused on the history of artistic technology, especially that related to the manufacture and decoration of manuscript books and the use and accessibility of pigments and coloring materials. Over the years he has participated in several research projects (regional, national and international). He has published 2 monographs, articles and book chapters and has collaborated in the edition of collective books. From 2008 to 2008 he was coordinator of the Art Technological Source Research (ATSR) Working Group of the Conservation Committee of the International Council of Museum (ICOM).

PUBLICATIONS

  • S. Kroustallis, R. Bruquetas Galán, “La policromía del Maestro Mateo en el Pórtico de la Gloria: un estudio de tecnología artística”, La restauración del Pórtico de la Gloria. Catedral de Santiago de Compostela: documentación, estudios y conservación, Madrid, Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, 2021, 213-233
  • S. Kroustallis, “Materia y expresión artistica. el uso del alabastro en las técnicas escultóricas”, Tejné: Hacia una historia material de la escultura, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 2020, 13-30
  • S. Kroustallis, “La técnica del dorado en el retablo de don Álvaro de Luna”, O. Pérez Monzón, M. Miquel Juan, M. Martín Gil (ed.), Retórica Artística en el tardogótico castellano: la capilla fúnebre de Álvaro de Luna en contexto, Madrid, Sílex, 2018.
  • [ISBN-978-84-7737-678-1]
  • S. Kroustallis, M. Gómez González, M. Miquel Juan, R. Bruquetas Galán, P. Pérez Monzón, “Gilding in Spanish panel painting from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries”, Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 8 (2) (2016), 313-343
  • [https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2016.1230273]
  • S. Kroustallis, “Los tratados de tecnología artística: la transmisión del conocimiento técnico y la formación del artista en la Alta Edad Media”, M. Miquel Juan, O. Pérez Monzón, M. Buesa Manzanas (ed.), Ver y crear. Obradores y mercados pictóricos en la España Gótica (1350-1500), Madrid, La Ergástula, 2016, 289-316
  • [ISBN: 978-84-162-42-19-1]
  • S. Kroustallis, Diccionario de materias y técnicas artísticas (II. Técnicas). Tesauro para la catalogación de bienes culturales, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 2015
  • S. Kroustallis, “Theophilus matters: the thorny question of the authorship of the Schedula diversarum artium”, A. Speer et al. (ed.) Die ‘Schedula diversarum artium’ – ein Handbuch Mittelalterlicher Kunst?, Berlin-New York, W. de Gruyter (2014) 52-71 (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 37)
  • ISBN: 978-3-11-033477-7
  • S. Kroustallis, “The technical treatise of the Codex Matritensis 19 and the transmission of art technology in Middle Ages”, R. Cordoba de la Llave (ed.), Craft treatises and handbooks: the Dissemination of technical knowledge in the Middle Ages, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013, 69-84 (De Diversis Artibus 91)
  • [ISBN: 978-2-503-54439-7]
  • S. Kroustallis, “Binding media in medieval manuscript illumination: a source research”, Revista de Historia da Arte I, Series W, (2011), 113- 125