Giles Knox is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art, Indiana University, USA.
Prize: Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Eleanor Tufts book prize competition, 2011, sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS) 'The Late Paintings of Vel uez is a comprehensive effort to treat some of the most important paintings by Vel uez as part of a self-conscious strategy to locate his past and present work against a backdrop of seventeenth-century art theory polemics, on the one hand, and in relation to the narrative of the history of early modern painting as it had been set up in the canonical Lives of Giorgio Vasari, on the other.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... an insightful contribution to Vel uez Studies.' Bulletin of Spanish Studies