Mr Basil Robinson FBA

History of Art
Year elected
1903
Year of birth
1912
Year of death
2005
Honours
FBA

Current post

formerly Keeper, Department of Metalwork, Victoria and Albert Museum (1966-72); Emeritus Keeper, Far Eastern Department (1972-76)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gülru Necipoğlu FBA

Ottoman and Mediterranean architectural history; premodern Islamic art and architecture; artistic cosmopolitanism of early modern Islamicate empires; visual culture and history of science; aesthetics of abstraction and ornament; critical historiography

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Professor Kathryn M. Rudy FBA

Medieval manuscripts and their functions; technical approaches to the reception of manuscripts; creativity and inventiveness

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Sir Nicholas Penny FBA

Italian painting of the sixteenth century; European Sculpture 1480-1920; the history of the collecting and display of European art.

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