[1] Born in Cartagena, he studied for his licentiate at the University of Valencia as well as studying the specialism of direction at the Escuela Oficial de Cine de Madrid with Basilio Martín Patino, Picazo, Manuel Summers and Gabriel Blanco.
His own ppoems were finally published in Madrid in 2003 as Poemas 1952-1968 with an introduction by his friend Francisco Brines.
From 1960 to 1961 he was awarded a scholarship to study at Munich's Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte as part of his thesis, collaborating with the Alte Pinakothek's director Soehner.
[1] In 1963 he gained his doctorate at the University of Madrid with a thesis entitled Italian painting of the 17th century in Spain, supervised by Diego Angulo Íñiguez, which later became the basis for a historical exhibition, which recovered and made known several paintings underestimated for decades.
In 2007 Spain's Ministry of Culture awarded him the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts for his decisive contributions to the study of Baroque art and the Prado and the Focus-Abengoa Foundation published a book in tribute to him with a scholarly and historical profile and contributions from leading Spanish and international specialists in the period.