Tobias Locker is an Adjunct Lecturer of Art History in the Humanities Department of the Pompeu Fabra University and at CIEE Barcelona. He has taught at numerous institutions, including Liverpool University and Saint Louis University (Madrid campus). His research focuses on the decorative arts of the historic Baroque and Rococo with a special interest in furniture as well as on the nineteenth and twentieth century revivals of these art periods within distinct national contexts. He has lectured and published on these topics, including the book chapter “A Prussian manufactory of gilt bronzes à la française: Johann Melchior Kambly (1718–84) and the adoption of Parisian savoir-faire” in French Bronzes (Archetype, 2014) and the article “The Baroque in the Construction of a National Culture in Francoist Spain: An Introduction” in Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Vol.91.5, 2014). He received his PhD from the Technical University in Berlin. At Bard Graduate Center, he will be conducting research on a Project entitled, Rococo for the Spanish Court: The Interiors of Mattia Gasparini in the European Context, which focuses on the person and the production of this skilled Italian artist who became court painter for Charles III of Spain and left his mark in the decoration of various interiors of the Royal Palace of Madrid.