Daniel Crespo Delgado, who holds a doctorate in art history, carries out research at the Fundación Juanelo Turriano and is associate professor with the department of modern art of the Complutense University in Madrid. He has published various monographs and many articles on the historiography and theory of Enlightenment art as well as on territory and public works in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is coordinator of the Juanelo Turriano History of Engineering Collection and has received the Pablo de Olavide national essay prize and the Demetrio Ribes research award.