José Luis Colomer
Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH), Publications, Department Member
- JOSÉ LUIS COLOMER holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the Colegio de España in Bologna and a degree in t... moreJOSÉ LUIS COLOMER holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the Colegio de España in Bologna and a degree in the history of art from the Sorbonne. He was a researcher to the Collège de France in Paris, an assistant professor of Spanish language and literature in the Université de Lyon II, and has held research scholarships at the École Française de Rome, the Warburg Institute in London, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Since 2004 he has been director of the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH) in Madrid. Colomer has published articles on cultural relations between Spain and Italy in the seventeenth century and on the sojourns of Velázquez in Italy and his links with Italian figures at court in Madrid, by means of articles in the Revue de l’art, The Burlington Magazine and the Boletín del Museo del Prado. In 2014 he coedited with Amalia Descalzo the two volumes of Spanish Fashion at the Courts of Early Modern Europe, the first systematic study of the influence of Spanish clothing in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Colomer collaborates with various North American institutions through the Center for Spain in America (CSA), a newly created foundation for promoting public awareness of Spanish art and culture in the U.S. through symposia, lecture series, exhibitions, and publications.edit
