Sydney Joseph Freedberg

Sydney Joseph Freedberg (November 11, 1914 - May 7, 1997) was an art historian who was chief curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.^[1]

Freedberg was born in Boston and attended the Boston Latin School. He received his bachelors and doctorate from Harvard University and was then a professor at Harvard for 30 years. At the time of his retirement in 1983 he was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard.

In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.^[2]

References

^ Cotter, Holland (May 8, 1997). "Sydney J. Freedberg, 82, Art Historian, Dies". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EFDD1F30F93BA35756C0A961958260. Retrieved 2008-05-20. "Sydney J. Freedberg, an art historian who taught for nearly three decades at Harvard and was chief curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, died on Tuesday at his home in Washington. He was 82."
^ Lifetime Honors - National Medal of Arts

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Name	Freedberg, Sydney Joseph
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Date of birth	November 11, 1914
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Date of death	May 7, 1997
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