Nuno Senos is professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture, chair of the Art History Department, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Art History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research interests span the architecture of Early Modern Portugal and its overseas possessions as well as the impact of empire on art consumption in Portugal in the 16th century. He has published on the Royal Palace of Lisbon (Paço da Ribeira), on the ducal palace of Vila Viçosa, and the historiographic and artistic construction of the memory of the voyage of Vasco da Gama (1498), among others. He has participated in numerous international projects currently including PALAMUSTO, Research & Training for the Palace Museum of Tomorrow, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (ITN 861426).