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 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Mack FBA

The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment

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Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA

History, theory, and analysis of 13th- and 14th-century music; music and French poetry in the same period; themes of love, violence, gender, and sexuality

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Professor Philip Bohlman FBA

Ethnomusicology: music as an agent of change in culture and modern history; music and religion and race; music in European Judaism and Islam.

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