Elena Escuredo holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Seville, where she teaches. She specialises in the sixteenth century, and her research focuses on Spanish painting, connections with Italy and the relationship between art and spirituality. She has enjoyed residencies and research contracts in Rome, Naples, Los Angeles and Paris, where she co-organised the international conference Pacheco à la plume. Le maître de Velázquez ou la pensée de l’art (2022). She is involved the CIRIMA R&D + Innovation project ‘Circulación de la imagen en la geografía artística del mundo hispánico en la Edad Moderna’.