Henry Keazor is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Heidelberg. In addition to French and Italian Baroque painting, Keazor’s research focuses on the illustration of the discovery of America in the early modern period, contemporary architecture (particularly that of Jean Nouvel), visual art and its reception, for example in literature and the media, as well as music videos. In 2020, he was honored by the Académie française with the “Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises.”