Vibhuti Sachdev is an architect, a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and the author of Indian Architectural Theory (1998)

Giles Tillotson is Senior Lecturer at SOAS, University of London, and the author of many books, including Mughal India (1990).

Gillian Darley is the author of many books, including John Soane: An Accidental Romantic (1999). She appears regularly on television and contributes to the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

Kenneth Bendiner is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and is the author of An Introduction to Victorian Painting (1985) and The Art of Ford Madox Brown (1998).

Mark Turner is Lecturer in English at King’s College, University of London.

Lucy Gent was Senior Lecturer in English at the Polytechnic of North London from 1976 to 1988. Her Picture and Poetry, 1560-1620 was published in 1981, and her articles have appeared in Modern Language Review, Renaissance Quarterly, English, Essays and Studies, Renaissance Studies and elsewhere. Since 1988 she has been studying landscape design.

Erich Ranfft is Henry Moore scholar at the University of Leeds.

Anthony Hughes is lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Leeds.

Jaś Elsner is Professor of Late Antique Art at the University of Oxford and a specialist in comparative art and archaeology. He is the author or editor of many books including Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (2007).