Elisabeth Kieven is an art historian. Her research concentrates on Italian, especially Roman, architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and its international impact, with a focus on architectural drawings. John Goodall is the architectural editor of Country Life responsible for writing and commissioning the celebrated series of architectural features published in the magazine every week. Rebecca Lyons is Director of Collections, Library, Archive and Public Programme at the Royal Academy of Arts, and an art-historian of eighteenth and nineteenth-century collections and collecting.