Cristina Agüero Carnerero, who earned a special degree award, studied Art History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and the Università di Bologna. She furthered her training at Patrimonio Nacional and the Museo Nacional del Prado (Prado-Meadows Museum scholarship in 2013), where she collaborated on the exhibition Roma en el bolsillo. Cuadernos de dibujo y aprendizaje artístico en el siglo XVIII. She was an FPU researcher at the Department of Art History of the UNED and a curator of the exhibition on Carreño de Miranda’s drawings at the Biblioteca Nacional, which this catalogue accompanies. She currently se holds a “Juan de la Cierva” postdoctoral position at the University of Barcelona.