Ph.D. 1964, Princeton University
Research interests
Spanish and New Spanish Painting, 1500-1800
History of Collecting
Art at European Courts, 17th c.
Sample courses
Painting in Spain 1580-1700; El Greco; The Late Goya; Historiography of Painting
in New Spain; Devotional Imagery in Spain and Spanish America.
Selected Publications
Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting. Princeton University Press, 1978.
A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV
(with John Elliott). Yale University Press, 1980; 2nd revised edition, 2003.
Velazquez. Painter and Courtier. Yale University Press, 1986.
Kings and Connoisseurs. Collecting Art in 17th Century Europe. The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in Fine
Arts, Yale University Press, 1995
Project Director, Los siglos de oro en los
virreinatos de America 1550-1700, Madrid, Museo de America, 1999
The Sale of the Century (with John Elliott), exh. Museo del Prado, Yale University Press,
2002.
Selected Honors
American Academy of Arts and Science
American Philosophical Society
Gran Cruz, Order of Alfonso X el Sabio (Spain)
Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes (Spain)
Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Oxford University
Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.