Salvador Salort-Pons
Salvador Salort-Pons (born April 18, 1970) is a Spanish-American art historian and museum director. Since 2015, Salort-Pons has served as the Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Early life and education Salort-Pons was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. In 1993, Salort-Pons graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid with a master's degree in Geography and History with a specialization in the History of Art. While studying at the Complutense University of Madrid he was taught by the former director of the , Alfonso Pérez Sánchez. In 1998 Salort-Pons was a recipient of the Rome Prize and lived and studied at the Spanish Academy in Rome for two years where he researched the presence of Spanish artists in Rome during the 17th century. In 2000, he became a member of the Royal College of Spain in Bologna where he completed his thesis about the trips Diego Velázquez made to Italy. His dissertation was published in 2002 and included over 50 new documents relating to the life and work of Velázquez during his two trips to Italy (in 1629–1630 and 1649–1651). Among Salort-Pons's discoveries was the correct dating of the Velázquez Portrait of Innocent X. In 2006, while working at