Sergio Ramiro Ramírez, who holds a doctorate in Art History from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, is Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral research fellow at the Instituto de Historia of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). His lines of research are centred on the political use of art at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, women’s artistic agency, and cultural exchanges between Italy, Central Europe and Spain during the Early Modern Age.