Louis Cellauro studied Architecture at the Ecole d’Architecture de Lyon and History of Art at the University Lyon Lumière before moving to London, where he received an MA and PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has been awarded in 2006 an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherchesfrom the University François-Rabelais in Tours, and is currently affiliated with the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes in Lyons of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He has published numerous articles in British, American, French, Italian and German academic journals as well as a book on the seventeenth-century French architect Antoine Desgodets.