Director of the Art History department at the university in Seville. In 1945. Marco Dorta received his undergraduate degree at the Universidad de La Laguna. He wrote his dissertation under Diego Angulo Iñiguez in Madrid 1940 with a topic of new-world Indian maps. In 1943 he accepted a position with the Catedrático de Arte Hispanico Americano of the Universidades de Sevilla.