Serafín Moralejo Álvarez

Serafín Moralejo Álvarez (October 31, 1946 - August 10, 2011) was Professor of History of Ancient and Medieval Art at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University.

He graduated in 1968 from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Santiago de Compostela. His thesis focused on the covers of the transept of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. He started teaching in the same institute the year after. Much of his work continued to focus on the eleventh to thirteenth century sculptures of the cathedral, and their relation to the sculptural traditions of the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage route of Saint James.

In 1978 he obtained the chair in History of Ancient and Medieval Art, a chair that he held until 1993 when he became the Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University.  He retired in 1998.

In 1993, he curated an exhibition 'Santiago, Camino de Europa. Worship and culture in the Pilgrimage to Compostela ', held at the Monastery of San Martín Pinario, of which he published, together with Fernando López Alsina, a 557-page catalog and 166 files.