David García Cueto is a lecturer of Art History at the University of Granada and head of the Department of Italian and French Painting until 1800 at the Prado Museum. His studies have chiefly explored artistic relations between Spain and Italy during the seventeenth century, and several of them have been published in international journals. He is the author of La estancia española de los pintores boloñeses Agostino Mitelli y Angelo Michele Colonna, 1658–1662  (2005).