Darío Velandia Onofre is Associate Professor and Director of the Art History Department at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He graduated in Literature from the Universidad de los Andes (2008) and received his Ph.D. in Art History from the Universitat de Barcelona (2014). His publications explore the use and function of sacred imagery in diverse territories of the Spanish monarchy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his research, he has taken a particular interest in an interdisciplinary methodology, evaluating the ways in which different types of literary sources (sacred oratory, artistic literature, mystical poetry, treatises on prayer, among others) condition the visual culture of the period. He is the author of Destrucción y culto: políticas de la imagen sagrada en América y España (1563-1700) (2021) and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes (Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 2025, Ediciones Uniandes 2022, Brill 2021, Word and Image 2018, H-ART 2018, Hispania Sacra 2017, Perifrasis 2012).
