Víctor Mínguez is professor of Art History at the Universitat Jaume I. As a specialist in analyzing images of power, he has published important books on political iconography, such as Los reyes distantes (1995), Los reyes solares (2001) and, in co-authorship with Inmaculada Rodríguez, Las ciudades del absolutismo (2006), and Himeneo en la Corte (2013). He has been the director of various international exhibitions centered on Spanish American art. He currently directs the project “Triunfos barrocos: la fiesta en los reinos hispánicos,” of which the first two volumes have been published: El reino de Valencia (2010) and Los virreinatos americanos (2012).