UK Fellow, History of Art and Music, elected in 1991
Professor Martin Kemp FBA
Now full-time writing, speaking and broadcasting on art and science, especially Leonardo da Vinci.
About this Fellow
Professor Kemp's most recent books are Art in History (Profile Books, 2014), Mona Lisa with Giuseppe Pallanti (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Living with Leonardo (Thames and Hudson, 2018). In 2019, his five books on Leonardo will include a co-authored monograph on Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi (Oxford University Press).
Website: http://www.martinjkemp.com
Appointments
Current post
- Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford; Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford; Honorary Fellow, Downing College Cambridge
Past Appointments
- Lecturer, University of Glasgow, 1966 - 1981
- Professor of the History and Theory of Art, University of St Andrews, 1981 - 1985
- Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford, 1995 - 2008
- Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford, 2008
Publications
Mona Lisa
Martin Kemp; Giuseppe Pallanti, 2017Art in History
Martin Kemp, 2015Structural Intuitions: Seeing Shapes in Art and Science
Martin Kemp, 2015Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
Martin Kemp, 2011Visualizations: the nature book of art and science
Martin Kemp, 2000The Human Animal in Western Art and Science
Martin Kemp, 2000Seen / Unseen
Martin Kemp, 2000The science of art: optical themes in Western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
Martin Kemp, 1989Leonardo da Vinci: the marvellous works of nature and man
Martin Kemp, 1981Other History of Art and Music Fellows
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