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Dr Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez

Director
She got her PhD in Art History by the Santiago de Compostela University with her Cum Laude thesis about The Flemish Painting in the 16th Century in the North of Spain. She awarded a scholarship for the Flemish and Dutch painting department at the Museo del Prado (Madrid) and for the education department and photography archive at the Provincial Museum of Pontevedra. 
Her research is focused in the 16th and 17th Flemish painting and painters in Spain and the artistic, social and commercial links between Flanders and Spain in the Modern Age. Her contributions in this field have been published in scholar journals, as in Spain as foreign. (Get more information: https://institutomoll.academia.edu/ANADIEGUEZRODRÍGUEZ; https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=57058)
She has been visited scholar for research stays in Belgium and the Netherlands, and in 2014 she received the “Europa Nostra” award in the modality of research, in collaboration with the book on Van Dyck in Spain (Madrid, 2012). Since 2024 she has been a full member of the Academia Hispanoamericana de Ciencias, Artes y Letras, correspondent of the Real Española de Cádiz, in the section of Mexico, holding seat H.
She combines her duties as director of the Instituto Moll with those of professor in the area of Art History at the University of Burgos.
She is the author of the book El retablo en el arciprestazgo de Monforte de Lemos en los siglos XVII y XVIII (Lugo, 2003), La pintura flamenca del siglo XVI en Osuna (Sevilla). Arte, devoción y significado para los condes de Ureña (Sevilla, 2023), Cobres de Flandes en Castilla. The mysteries of Otto van Veen's Rosary from the altarpiece of the hospital of Briviesca (Burgos), (Medina del Campo, 2023), The triumph of Mannerism. La capilla de la Natividad de la catedral de Burgos (Alcañiz, 2023), these last two in collaboration, as well as in the books: Van Dyck en España (Madrid, 2012), and Jordaens y España (Madrid, 2018). Her task as editor of the monograph The Pictor Doctus, between Knowledge and Workshop. Artists, Collectios and Friendship in Europe, 1500-1900, published in Brepols in 2021 has been fundamental.
Within the Moll Institute she is the coordinator since 2016 of the editorial line: Studia Picturarum , and she heads the scholar Journal: Philostrato. Journal in History and Art (ISSN: 2530-9420).
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