Ana María Arias de Cossio (La Laguna, 1946) is a Doctor of Art History, University of La Laguna, where she also taught for 3 years. Since 1975 she has worked at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she is now Professor of Art History. She was a director of the Department of Art II: Renaissance and Baroque from 1997 to 2005 and has published 10 books under her own name, in addition to numerous contributions to edited editions and articles in academic journals.