Fernando Villegas-Torres

Fernando Villegas received his PhD in History of Art from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. His dissertation was entitled Vínculos artísticos entre España y Perú (1892-1929): elementos para la construcción del imaginario nacional peruano (2013). Previously, he obtained a Master’s Degree in History and History of Art from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima, Peru. He has followed several advanced courses and internships. He was an education intern at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA) at Antwerp, Belgium, in 2002, focusing on museology and cultural tourism. In Madrid, Spain, he followed the specialist course Las fuentes españolas en el arte virreinal. As a curator of the art museum department of the UNMSM in Lima, he was responsible for the portrait collection at that institution. He has also worked as a researcher at the Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana in Lima, which operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture of Peru. He has published extensively on Peruvian art history of the 19th and 20th century and, to a lesser extent, on Peruvian folk art and Peruvian Baroque painting. He is the author of the book El Perú a través de la pintura y crítica de Teófilo Castillo (2006). He currently works as an independent researcher and is assistant professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (Master of Art History and Curatorship) and at the UNMSM (PhD in Art History).