Research

His ongoing projects include numerous studies and a co-written book on world art history, and a history of the Habsburgs. He is co-editor and a major contributor to a multi-volume history of art and architecture in the Iberian world through the ages. His recent books include Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor, London, Reaktion Books, and Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2025, and an edition and introduction to a new translation of Julius von Schlosser, The Cabinets of Art and Wonder of the Late Renaissance, Los Angeles, Getty Research Center, 2021.  Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Complete 500th Anniversary Edition, Cologne, Taschen, will be published in 2026.