Lisa A. Banner holds a PhD in History of Art from New York University. She has written extensively on Spanish Baroque art and has contributed to exhibition catalogs, symposia, and conferences throughout the world. She has published The Religious Patronage of the Duke of Lerma, 1598-1621 (2009) and co-curated the exhibition The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya (New York, 2010–11).