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 Liz James FBA

Byzantine studies but especially art and archaeology; art and text, light and colour; mosaics; also gender; power; place and space; receptions and perceptions of Byzantium.

Liz James FBA

Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA

Russian music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; music and nationalism; power structures and culture in the Soviet Union

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Professor Elizabeth Anne Lambourn FBA

Material culture and history of the Indian Ocean world before 1500

Elizabeth Anne Lambourn (credit Mikael Wallerstedt)

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