CONTRIBUTOR:

Ilenia Colón Mendoza

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Art History

INSTITUTION:

University of Central Florida

BIOGRAPHY:

Ilenia Colón Mendoza received a B.A. in Art History and Archaeology from the University of Evansville in Indiana and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. She is associate professor of Art History and affiliate faculty in Graduate Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. Her primary area of research is Spanish art of the 17th century and 18th centuries. Her book entitled The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernandez: Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain (Ashgate 2015) examines the significance of the Cristo yacente sculptural type within the context of the theatrical elaborations of the Catholic Holy Week in Baroque Spain. She is the co-editor of Spanish Royal Patronage 1412-1804: Portraits as Propaganda (Cambridge Scholars Publising 2018) and has also contributed to the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World.