Vicente Lleó Cañal (1947–2021) was professor of Art History at the University of Seville. He had been research assistant to Professor Sir John H. Elliott at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and visiting professor at the Michigan-Ann Arbor University and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery, Washington D.C. Prominent among his publications are the monographs Nueva Roma. Mitología y humanismo en el Renacimiento sevillano (1979, new ed. 2012), La Casa de Pilatos (1998) and El Alcázar de Sevilla (2002). He was a member of the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras and patron of the Foundation of the Ducal House of Medinaceli.