Teresa Gisbert Carbonell

Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa (30 November 1926 – 19 February 2018) was a Bolivian architect and art historian. She specialized in the history of the Andean region.

Biography Teresa Gisbert Carbonell was born on 30 November 1926 in La Paz, Bolivia. Her family emigrated from Spain. She earned a bachelor's degree in arquitecture and urbanism in the Higher University of San Andrés (La Paz) in 1950. After finishing her studies, Teresa Gisbert travelled to Spain, along with her husband José de Mesa, whom she had married in 1950, to complete her graduate studies in art history.

During her staying in Spain, between 1953 and 1962,she served as a researcher at the Laboratory of Art of the University of Seville and at the Diego Velasquez Art Institute.

Gisbert has received numerous awards and scholarships for her research in art, arquitecture and history. These include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958 and 1966 to conduct research on colonial art.

Selected works With José de Mesa Historia de la pintura Cuzqueña (History of Painting in Cuzco, 1962) Holguín y la pintura virreinal en Bolivia (Holguín and Viceregal Bolivian Painting, 1977) Historia del Arte en Bolivia (2012)