Holder of a PhD in History of Art from the University of Barcelona (1994).Since November 2013, he has been Technical Director of the Catalan Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (ICRPC).He is a tenured university lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Girona, where he teaches subjects including Renaissance Art; Baroque Art in Europe;From Greco to Velázquez; Caravaggio;Flemish and Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: from Rubens to Vermeer; and the History of Culture (modern and contemporary eras). For the master’s degree in Research in Humanities, he is involved in the subject Documentary Sources Used in the History of Art. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Italian universities of Sassari and Cagliari, and an assistant lecturer at the University of Lleida.
He is currently coordinator and porfessor of the Master's Degree in Heritage of the University of Girona.
In the Faculty of Letters at the University of Girona, he has held the positions of Coordinator of Studies in History of Art (1996-2000), Vice-Dean (2002-2005) and Director of the Department of History and History of Art (2009-2013).
He researches sixteenth and seventeenth century art produced in Catalonia, and focuses on the critical study and rediscovery of some of the creators of the most significant works in this historical art scene, and on the reception of international artistic culture. He has published books on Agustí Pujol (2009), the art of altarpieces in the Bages area during the seventeenth century (1990), the main altarpieces of Santa Maria in Arenys de Mar (2004) and the priory of Sant Pere in Reus (with Joaquim Garriga, 1997), and papers on Pere Nunyes, Joan Baptista Toscano and Antoni Rovira, among others. He has curatedthe exhibitions Tapissos de la Seu Vella andDe Flandes a Itàlia (both with Joaquim Garriga, 1992 and 1998), Llums del Barroc (2004) and Alba Daurada. L’art del retaule a Catalunya (2006).
He is currently preparing publications on the artistic culture of art workshops in the Principality (based on his studies “La Culture artistique au service de l'art de dévotion: exemples en Catalogne a l'èpoque moderne”, 2009 and “L'Art del retaule: recursos inventius”, 2007) and on collecting in the house of the Toledos, who were the Marquises of Villafranca during the reigns of Philip II and Philip II of Spain.Some arguments on these subjects have already been published in the papers “Paul Bril, Wenzel Cobergher, Jacob Frankaert I, Willem I van Nieulandt y los ermitaños de Pedro de Toledo, V Marqués de Villafranca”, “La fortaleza que quiso ser palacio. Notícia de Camillo Camiliani en España” (Locus Amoenus, 2009 and 2013) and “Retazos del sueño tardorenacentista de don Pedro de Toledo” (Yearbook of the Department of History and Theory of Art, 2009).
Currently, he is principal investigatorof the “Coleccionismo y gusto artistico de la aristocracia catalana y mallorquina en epoca moderna. Creacion y dispersion de un patrimonio”research and development project, which is jointly coordinated by the University of Girona (UdG) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness, HAR2012-39182-C02-01).
He has been received the Special Doctoral Prize from the University of Barcelona (1994), and the Antoni Pedrol Rius Research Award (1995). He is a member of ANECA’s Committee on Doctoral Studies in Arts and Humanities. Between 2006 and 2012, he was a member of the Girona Heritage Committee, and since 2007 he has been a member of the Board for the Classification, Evaluation and Exportation of Catalan Cultural Heritage, which is attached to the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Culture.
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan (2016) “Il testamento e l'eredità artistica di Pere Nunyes, pittore portoghese attivo in Catalogna." Uno Sguardo verso Nord. Scritti in onore di Caterina Virdis Limentani. Padova (ITA): Il Poligrafo casa editrice, 2016.
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan (2016) Nápoles, Pozzuoli, Villafranca, sin Pedro de Toledo, Rinascimento meridionale. Napoli e il viceré Pedro de Toledo (1532-1553). Napoli (ITA): Tullio Pironti Editore.
BOSCH BALLBONA, J. (2015) “El pintor Antoni Viladomat i Manalt (1678-1755)”. Acta /Artis: Estudis d'Art Modern, 2.
BOSCH BALLBONA, J. (2014) “The fine arts during the Baroque period in the Principality of Catalonia and the countships of Roussillon and the Cerdagne”, Catalan Historical Review, 7, 2014, pp. 29-44.
BOSCH BALLBONA, J. (2013) La fortaleza que quiso ser palacio. Noticia de Camillo Camiliani en España (1604). LOCVS AMŒNVS 12, 2013-2014 79 -106.
BOSCH BALLBONA, J. “El pintor Antoni Viladomat i Manalt (1678-1755)”. Exposició A Girona: Museu d’Art de Girona A Lleida: Museu de Lleida Diocesà i Comarcal A Mataró: Museu de Mataró; Museu Arxiu de Santa Maria A Barcelona: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. 10 de maig –2 de novembre de 2014. Comissari: Francesc Miralpeix i Vilamala.
BOSCH BALLBONA, J. PLANAS, M, LLUELLES, M.J., YLLA-CATALÂ, G., TARRADELLAS, C., CAMPS, J., FAVÀ, C., MARTÍN, G., GARRALLÀ, B., MARQUÉS, P, ORIOLS,N., BERENGUER, M. Les obres d’art patrimonials fora d’Andorra. Benvingudes a casa vostra!. Govern d’Andorra. 2014.
BOSCH BALLBONA, J. (2013) El periple pictòric d'un pintor milanès a Catalunya: Joan Baptista Toscano,actiu entre 1599 i 1617 Locus Amoenus 11, 97 - 127.
L'esplendor de Santa Maria d'Arenys de Mar
Alba Daurada. L'art del retaule a Catalunya 1600-1792 circa, Museu d'Art de Girona, Barcelona, 2009
Le Maître de Llupià: la mystérieuse identité d'un peintre centro-européen en Roussillon
El impacto de Albrecht Dürer y del grabado internacional en Cerdeña
Bosch, Joan; Garriga, Joaquim; Miralpeix, Francesc: El catàleg sobre les arts de l’època moderna a Andorra (segles XVI-XVIII): un salt quantitatiu en el coneixement de l’art i la cultura visual del Principat
Retazos del sueño tardorenacentista de don Pedro de Toledo Osorio
La culture artistique au service de l'art de dévotion: exemples en Catalogne a l'èpoque moderne
Paul Bril, Wenzel Cobergher, Jacob Frankaert y Willem I van Nieulandt y los “Ermitaños” de Pedro de Toledo V marqués de Villafranca
L'art del retaule: els recursos inventius. Un
Pedro Vilar, Claudi Perret, Gaspar Bruel i el rerecor de la catedral de Barcelona
Cendres de la pintura: Antoni Rovira i Pau Torrents al retaule de sant Miquel d'Esparreguera (1629-1635)
Por la historia de los retablos del siglo XVII en Catalunya: un itinerario. Els avatars i els artistes del retaule de Sant Pere de Reus: una revisió documental
NO INDEXED ARTICLES
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan (2019). “El “Sant Crist” d’Agustí Pujol a la Basílica de Valldeflors de Tremp”. Taüll, núm 52. Secretariat interdiocesà per a la custodia i promoció de l’art sagrat de Catalunya.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan; VAZQUEZ VIVES, Adrià (2019). “La revelació dels ‘patriarques’ del Museu Diocesà d’Urgell”. L’Avenç, 454, Barcelona, 40-49.
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan (2017) Manresa 1936: un cas emblemàtic de salvaguarda i destrucció. Plecs d’Història Local. L’Avenç. p. 165. ISSN: 2339-6997.
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan (2016) Sobre el quinto marqués de Villafranca, Camillo y Giulio Cesare Procaccini. LOCVS AMOENVS 14, 91 – 108.
BOOK CHAPTERS
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan (2017) El rescat del patrimoni artístic: els casos de Granollers i Mataró (1936-1939). La salvaguarda del patrimoni religiós català durant la Guerra Civil espanyola. Museu d'Art de Girona - Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, p. 130-146. ISBN: 978-84-393-9543-0.
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan (2017) Bartolomé Ordóñez: una poderosa inventiva. Mario Congedo Ed. Napoli e la Spagna nel Cinquecento. Le opere, gli artisti, la storiografia, 2017, p. 107-126. ISBN: 978-88-6766-175-6.
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan; MIRALPEIX VILAMALA, Francesc (2019) “Falsos verdaders, l’art de l’engany”, Catàleg de l’exposició Falsos Verdaders. L’Art de l’Engany. Museu d’Art de Girona comisariada per Joan Bosch y Francesc Miralpeix, Noviembre 2019/Octubre 2020, pp. 11-41. [traducción inglesa en pp. 81-105]; ISBN 978-84-393-9945-2
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan (2016) “'Entre las dos riberas del mediterraneo: los hombres del rey'.
BOOKS
BOSCH BALLBONA, Joan; MIRALPEIX VILAMALA, Francesc (2017) L'art de l'època moderna a Andorra, segles XVI-XVIII. Govern d'Andorra. ISBN: 978-99920-0-813-3.
Bosch, J; Clusellas, C; Miralpeix, F. (eds.): Falsos Verdaders. L’Art de l’Engany, Catàleg de l’exposició celebrada al Museu d’Art de Girona (nov.2019 / octubre 2020), Girona, 2019, 119 pp. ISBN 978-84-393-9945-2