Martin Kemp (art historian)

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Martin Kemp is an art historian based at the University of Oxford who specialises in the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He has written widely on Leonardo's work and on other aspects of Renaissance art.

M.A. (Oxon), M.A. (Cantab), D.Litt. (Heriot Watt), Courtauld Institute of Art, F.B.A., F.R.S.E., Hon.R.S.A., Hon.R.I.A.S., F.R.S.S.U.

Professor of the History of Art in the University of Oxford

Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford

Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge

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[edit] Publications

• The human animal in art and science (Chicago 2007)

• The Leonardo catalogue (London 2006)

• Seen and unseen (Oxford 2006)

• Leonardo (Oxford 2004)

• The Oxford history of western art (Oxford 2000)

• Visualizations: the nature book of art and science (Oxford 2000)

• Spectacular bodies: the art and science of the human body from Leonardo to now (with Marina Wallace) (London/Los Angeles 2000)

• Immagine e verità (Milan 1999)

• Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: new paintings (London 1999)

• Susan Derges: liquid form 1985-99 (London 1999)

• Behind the picture: art and evidence in the Italian Renaissance (New Haven/London 1997)

• "Wrought by no artist's hand": the natural, the exotic, and the scientific in some artifacts from the Renaissance (New Haven/London 1995)

• Bodyscapes: images of human anatomy from the collections of St. Andrews University (St Andrews 1995)

• Materia medica: a new cabinet of medicine and art; an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, November 1995 (with Ken Arnold) (London 1995)

• Mood of the moment: masterworks of photography from the University of St Andrews (ed.) (St Andrews 1994)

• Leonardo da Vinci: the mystery of the Madonna of the yarnwinder (ed.) (Edinburgh 1992)

• Paolo Uccello's "Hunt in the forest" in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (with Ann Massing) (n.p. 1991)

• Leon Battista Alberti, On painting (introduction and notes) (London 1991)

• The Altarpiece in the Renaissance (ed. with Peter Humfrey) (Cambridge 1990)

• The science of art : optical themes in Western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (London/New Haven 1990)

• Leonardo on painting: an anthology of writings (ed. with Margaret Walker) (London/New Haven 1989; 2001)

• Leonardo da Vinci: Hayward Gallery, London, 26 January to 16 April 1989 (London 1989)

• Leonardo e lo spazio dello scultore (Florence 1988)

• Kenneth Clark, Leonardo da Vinci; (introduction) (Harmondsworth 1988; London 1993; London 2005)

• Geometrical perspective from Brunelleschi to Desargues: a pictorial means or an intellectual end? (Oxford 1985)

• Leonardo da Vinci: the marvellous works of nature and man (London 1981; Oxford 2006)

• Dr. William Hunter at the Royal Academy of Arts (ed.) (Glasgow 1975)

• Scott and Delacroix, with some assistance from Hugo and Bonington (Edinburgh 1973)

• Cima da Conegliano (Paulton 1967)

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[edit] External links

• http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/hoa/staff/kemp.htm