Alejandro Martínez earned a PhD in art history from the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid with a thesis on Luis Paret y Alcázar’s artistic culture. He has recently published Historia de las Artes entre los Antiguos (2014), a translation of J. J. Winckelmann’s history of ancient art based on Diego Antonio Rejón de Silva’s manuscript of 1784, and Patrimonio en conflicto. Memoria del botín napoleónico recuperado (1815‒1819) (with Esperanza Navarrete, 2015). He has also written various articles for specialist journals and studies on Spanish art and cultural history of the second half of the 1700s.