Manuel Parada López de Corselas, who holds a PhD in Art History and in Archaeology, specialises in Classical architecture and cultural exchanges in the Hispanic world. He has been a Fulbrgiht scholar at Harvard and is a Juan de la Cierva research fellow at the CSIC’s Instituto de Historia. He has published La serliana en el Imperio romano, paradigma de la arquitectura del poder (2015) and El viaje de Jan van Eyck de Flandes a Granada (2016).