Mario Santos López

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Mario Santos López is a historian and author specializing in genealogy, heraldry, noble culture, and visual representation in early modern Europe. His research focuses on court portraiture as a symbolic device of dynastic power, with particular attention to its diplomatic function within the context of the Spanish Monarchy.

He holds a diploma in Heraldry, Genealogy, and Nobiliary Sciences from the Escuela Marqués de Avilés, in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), which deepened his interest in lineage and historical identity. He later earned a degree in History and Cultural Heritage from the University of Burgos, where he also completed the university program in Art Market and Introduction to Collecting.

His methodological approach integrates social history, visual analysis, and archival research, and is reflected in studies on the circulation of royal imagery across European courts, the semantics of power, and curatorial interpretation. He is an associate member of the Royal Association of Hidalgos of Spain and participates in the Spanish delegation of CILANE (Commission d’Information et de Liaison des Associations Nobles d’Europe) through the Young Nobility of Spain (JNE) group. This affiliation reinforces his commitment to the study and preservation of Spanish and European noble heritage from historical, documentary, and cultural perspectives.

Part of his bibliographic output is registered on platforms such as Amazon, WorldCat, Dialnet, Open Library, and LibraryThing, and is complemented by specialized articles on genealogy, heraldry, and noble visual culture. He has also contributed to collective volumes focused on dynastic representation, the social history of lineage, and the symbolic analysis of visual and documentary sources. His publications are distributed across Zenodo, Figshare, HAL, and Humanities Commons.


Compétences

Historical research and documentation of noble heritage Genealogical and heraldic analysis with institutional nuance Visual interpretation of dynastic portraiture and symbolic representation Archival research and primary source contextualization Academic writing and collaborative article development Multilingual adaptation and translation of scholarly texts (Spanish–English) Curatorial interpretation of noble imagery and documentary sources