Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
He studied Comparative Literature in Caracas at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, graduating Summa Cum Laude after writing a thesis on the Mexican poet José Gorostiza. Later he pursued his studies in Philosophy and Art History in Toulouse and Paris (France), receiving a Ph.D from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHHSS, Paris) in 1994, under the direction of Louis Marin and Hubert Damisch, after completing his doctoral dissertation on Diego Velazquez.