The University of Valladolid has  published the results  of the research project  Retablos-tabernacles of the Lower Middle Ages in the Crown of Castile: study, documentation and diffusion , financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness with the support of the European Regional Development Fund (reference HAR2017-82949-P, MINECO/AEI/FEDER, EU)

The project has been developed from the Department of Art History of the Universidad de Valladolid (UVA) under the direction of professor Fernando Gutiérrez Baños and with the team of researchers formed by Dr. Irune Fiz Fuertes, professor in the UVA Art History Department; Francisco M. Morillo, collaborator of the UVA Architectural Photogrammetry Laboratory, and Dra. Carme Sandalinas Linares, head of the Department of Preventive Conservation and Restoration of the  Frederic Marès Museum .

The most visible result of this research project are the monographic files for each of them 38 Castilian tabernacle altarpieces from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries  that have been identified. Each of these files, which are published in the  Documentary Repository of the University of Valladolid , collects the identification data of the work and the existing bibliography on it, a detailed study and, above all, an exhaustive graphic analysis and a recreation that makes it possible to understand these works, which for the most part have arrived in a fragmentary state (only five of the 38 altarpieces have kept the four panels of their folding wings more or less intact).

In this sense, the   Altarpiece-Tabernacle of Santa Maria de Castildelgado  (Burgos) is the only one that has preserved each and every one of its elements: the  canopy and wings at the Frederic Marès Museum , and the Virgin Mary in the church of San Pedro y San Esteban de Castildelgado (Burgos). It was precisely carried out at the F. Marès Museum  radiographic examination and analysis of 25 samples of polychromy   in charge of the project, which made it possible to technically study the altarpiece.

Apart from this, they have been studied  two other altarpieces-tabernacle of the Museum:  one from the end of the twelfth century  and the another from the third quarter of the 14th century .

Also, during the development of the project, the international symposium was held  The Saint Enshrined: European Tabernacle-altarpieces c.1150-1400, which took place in Valladolid on June 7 and 8, 2019 and whose lectures were published in  number 2020 of the annual magazine   Medieval , published by the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

* Consult the results of the project:

-  Altarpiece of Castildelgado

-  Altarpiece Marès I

-  Altarpiece Marès II