Barbara Arciszewska is a Professor at the Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, and a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Toronto. She was previously a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Graduate Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art, a Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and a Visiting Professor at Indiana University (Bloomington). Her work focuses on the theory and practice of architecture in early modern Europe, and her publications include books, such as Classicism and Modernity. Architectural Thought in Eighteenth-century Britain (2011), as well as numerous articles and book chapters (recently 'The Office of the King's Works and modernization of architectural patronage in 18th century England,' in: Companion to Architecture in the Age of the Enlightenment (2017), and 'Religious architecture in early modern Poland, 1500-1800,' in: Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity (2022). She is currently engaged in the European research project PALAMUSTO, which develops multidisciplinary approaches to the study of early modern residences.

Clive Aslet is a Visiting Professor of Architecture at Cambridge and a member of the Management Committee of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the study of Classical Architecture. He has published more than thirty books on architecture and British culture, beginning with The Last Country Houses, 1982, and The American Country House, 1990, for Yale University Press. In 2021, he returned to Yale with The Story of the Country House. On leaving Cambridge in 1977, Clive joined the magazine Country Life, where he was Editor from 1993-2006. In 2020-21 he undertook a study of Halewell at Withington in Gloucestershire for the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit, which will be published in 2024. In 2019, he co-founded Triglyph Books with the photographer Dylan Thomas. He is a trustee of INTBAU, a global network of architects dedicated to creating better places to live, and Chair of the Lutyens Trust.

Basile Baudez is Assistant Professor of Architectural History in the Art and Archaeology Department at Princeton University. His first book, Architecture et Tradition Académique au Siècle des Lumières (2012) questioned the role of architects in early modern European academies. He co-edited several volumes dedicated to French architecture and curated exhibitions on architectural drawings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Courtauld Institute of Art. His latest book, Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2021), which was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, addresses the role of colour in European architectural representation from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. He currently works on an urban history of textiles in eighteenth-century Venice.

Julius Bryant is Keeper Emeritus of the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he was formerly Keeper of Word and Image (2005-21), with responsibility for paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, the National Art Library and the V&A+RIBA Partnership. As Chief Curator at English Heritage, he contributed to the restoration of Osborne House between 1990 and 2005, in collaboration with the Royal Collection. His publications include Creating the V&A: Victoria and Albert's Museum (1851-1861) (London,2019).

John Goodall is the architectural editor of Country Life magazine and contributes every week to the pages of the magazine. He has written several guidebooks to historic sites and is also the author of several books on architecture in the UK, most recently The English Castle: 1066-1650 (Paul Mellon Centre, 2011), Parish Church Treasures (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015), Interior House Style (Rizzoli, 2019) and The Castle: A History (Yale, 2022). John sits on the fabric advisory committees of sev-
eral English cathedrals and great churches.

Elisabeth Kieven studied art history, history and archaeology at the Universities of Münster, Bonn, Munich, and Vienna. Her research on the Italian architect Alessandro Galilei
(1691-1737), carried out in Dublin, London, Florence and Rome, resulted in a doctoral thesis completed in 1977 at the University of Bonn. From 1978-1985, she was a senior fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institute for Art History) in Rome, and in 1984, also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 1991, she presented her Habilitation thesis on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architectural drawings in Rome at the University of Augsburg. After teaching at the University of Stuttgart, in 1994, she became professor of art history at the University of Tübingen. In 1998-1999, she was Dean of the faculty of Cultural Sciences. From 1999 until her retirement in 2014, she was co-director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana.

Jarl Kremeier is a Berlin-based art and architectural historian; he read history, art history and musicology in Würzburg, London and Berlin. His contributions include entries to Macmillan's
Dictionary of Art as well as studies on the episcopal Residenz in Würzburg, the architecture of the Hanoverian Court and the library of Balthasar Neumann. An article on the house and palace chapels of
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt will appear later this year in the proceedings of the Hildebrandt-Conference (held at Vienna in 2018).

Rebecca Lyons is an art historian, curator and lecturer. She is based at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where she is the director of Collections, Library, Archive and Learning. Rebecca has worked for the National Trust, The National Gallery, Christie's and most recently as the director of the Attingham Trust's prestigious Royal Collection Studies course. She is a member of the Advisory
Council for the Society for the History of Collecting and for the Attingham Trust, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and Trustee of a large primary academy trust. Educated at the universities of
Oxford, the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge, she publishes on collecting and collections in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with particular reference to George IV and the London
art world.

Magnus Olausson is a Swedish art historian. He received his PhD in the History of Art at Uppsala University in 1993 (The English Landscape Garden in Sweden during the Gustavian Era). Olausson holds an honorary position as an associate professor from his alma mater. Since 1986, Olausson has held various positions at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
In 2011, he became Director of Collections. Olausson has published extensively on the history of eighteenth-century architecture, paintings and sculptures as well as on the history of collecting. He has been responsible for some major exhibitions at the Nationalmuseum as well as collaborations with the Louvre, Courtauld Art Galleries, the State Hermitage and Château de Versailles. For several years, he has been a member of the advisory board of Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes and of the board of ICFA. He is a member of the Swedish Royal Society for the publication of documents on Scandinavian history. In 2004, Olausson became Chamberlain to H.M. the King.

Emily Roy has recently completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Her research concerned the significance of stone in the printed imagery of the new Russian imperial capital of St Petersburg in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She is currently a curator with the National Trust, working on a major project to bring Bath
Assembly Rooms to life. Previously, she held curatorial positions at Bristol Museums and Waddesdon Manor (National Trust, Rothschild Collections), specialising in applied and decorative arts. She completed her BA in History of Art at Oxford University and her MA in Russian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL.

Frank Salmon is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow (and former President) of St John's College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His many publications include Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture (2000) and the edited volume The Persistence of the Classical: Essays on Architecture Presented to David Watkin (2008).

Ian Thompson is currently a Visiting Fellow in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK, where he was formerly Reader in Landscape Architecture. He is the author of The Sun King's Garden (Bloomsbury, 2006), The English Lakes: A History (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Landscape Architecture. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2014).

Simon Thurley is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and a leading authority on British royal buildings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A former Curator of Historic Royal Palaces and Chief Executive of English Heritage, he is now Chair of the UK Heritage Fund, the largest funder of heritage projects in the UK. His most recent book is Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art and the Stuart Court (2021).

David Watkin was Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and, as a world-leading authority, the author of some thirty books, predominantly on the history of classical architecture and landscape from the eighteenth century to the present day. In 2004 he published The Architect King: George III and the...