Mauricio Gerardo Oviedo Salazar

Mauricio Gerardo Oviedo Salazar holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the Universidad de Costa Rica and a master’s degree in religious studies with an emphasis on Western esotericism from the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is currently finishing his doctoral studies as a double doctorate between the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and the Postgraduate Programme in Art History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His doctoral studies focus on the visual motif of the heart and its role in the religious experience of the individual in the 18th century, in both the Dutch Protestant and the Novohispanic Catholic contexts. In his publications, conferences, papers, and lectures, he has explored various topics related to art, magic, mysticisms, astrology, philosophy of science, art theory, religious emblem books, material culture, comic studies, and Costa Rican art between the 19th and 20th centuries. He is currently teaching at the Universidad de Costa Rica.

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