Acknowledgements

Publication of this e-book was generously supported by Sackler Research Forum of The Courtauld Institute of Art and by the Office of Scientific and Cultural Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London. Further funds came from the Colnaghi Foundation, which also sponsored the conference from which these papers derive. The editors are especially grateful to Dr Steven Brindle and to the second anonymous reader (from Spain) for their careful reviews of all the essays in this collection. We also thank Andrew Cummings, who carefully copyedited all the texts, as well as Alixe Bovey, Maria Mileeva and Grace Williams, who supported this e-book at different stages of its production.