Sir Nicholas Penny FBA

Italian painting of the sixteenth century; European Sculpture 1480-1920; the history of the collecting and display of European art.
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
Art history

Current post

Formerly Director, The National Gallery

Past appointments

The National Gallery Formerly Director

2015 -

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Professor Georges Didi-Huberman FBA

History and theory of art, anthropology of images and imagination, Renaissance to the contemporary era

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Professor Julie Annette Brown FBA

Cultural and media histories of twentieth-century music; Schoenberg, Bartók; screen music and sound; the influence of race and gender on musical cultures; moving pictures with musical subject matter; the musical and theatrical exhibition of ‘silent’ films, especially in Britain; the sounds of early screen travelogues in exhibition

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Professor Katharine Ellis FBA

The cultural history of music in France during the long nineteenth century: social and ideological factors influencing composition, performance, education and audience experience; music criticism; music in fiction; women's history

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