Antonio Urquizar-Herrera is Associate Professor at the History of Art Department of the UNED, Madrid, as well as Life Member at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has published several monographs about Early Modern Art in Spain, among them Coleccionismo y nobleza. Signos de distincion social en la Andalucia del Renacimiento (2007). He has also published more than thirty book chapters and articles in International and Spanish peer review journals. He has been principle investigator of a number of different research groups and research projects on Early Modern Art in Spain.

"informatively very rich and from a research point of view an innovative book ... the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Islamic urbanism and architecture in the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Modern Period by Spanish historians." -- Ieva Kalnaca, Sehepunkte

"Urquízar-Herrera's well-researched book strikes deep into vital questions about the art history of Early Modern Spain ... Urquízar-Herrera wrote a book that advances the study of dissemination and reception of historiographical narratives. He brings in support of his claims both visual and written arguments that provide an extensive approach to the relationship between the manipulation of images and ideological appropriation." -- Livia Stoenescu, Neo-Latin News

"Admiration and Awe is deeply researched, penetrating and thought-provoking. ... [the reader] will also appreciate the excellent selection of images and the wealth of primary and secondary sources that Urquizar-Herrera has minded and assembled in an invaluable forty-six-page bibliography. This will be an indispensable volume for students of early modern historiography." -- Katherine Van Liere , Bulletin of the Comediantes

"[T]he identification and analysis of historical writings from the 16th and 17th centuries, the careful citation of sources, and the extensive bibliography serve well the serious student of Spain's history....Recommended."--CHOICE