Jesús Escobar is a professor of art history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
The book won the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies and has been revised in a Spanish-language edition published in 2008 by Editorial Nerea.
Escobar is working on a new book that examines seventeenth-century architecture and urbanism at the court of Philip IV in Madrid.
Escobar won a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to Spain where he researched The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid.
He has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[1] Escobar serves on the Editorial Board of caa.reviews, the online review journal of the College Art Association of America, and is editor for the scholarly book series, Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press.