Long Before Banksy, Graffiti Already Told Stories: a Researcher From the University of León Tracks Her Medieval Footprints

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Historian Vanessa Jimeno analyzes the inscriptions, drawings and symbols preserved in churches and other medieval buildings and spaces of the province and Castile and Leon

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Long before the walls of the cities were filled with tags and graffiti became an artistic manifestation linked to names such as Banksy, Basquiat or Keith Haring, there were already people who left their mark on the walls. Also in the Middle Ages. Far from being a marginal practice or associated with vandalism, graffiti was part of the daily life of medieval societies. Vanessa Jimeno, professor of art history at the University of León, who studie…