42 Notable alumni of
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
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The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London is 977th in the world, 341st in Europe, and 65th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 42 notable alumni from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Vincent Price
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- stage actorwriterautobiographerart historianactor
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Vincent Leonard Price Jr. was an American actor. He was known for his work in the horror film genre, mostly portraying villains. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television.
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Cynthia Wu
- Enrolled in the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politicianbusiness executive
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Cynthia Wu is a Taiwanese business executive and politician. She worked for subsidiaries of Merrill Lynch in the United Kingdom and the Shin Kong Group in Taiwan before she was appointed to the Legislative Yuan in 2022.
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Nicole Krauss
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- writernovelist
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Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in Best American Short Stories 2003, Best American Short Stories 2008 and Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.
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Jeff Wall
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- photographerart historianartistprintmaker
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Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian photographer. He is artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay, and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.
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Andrew Graham-Dixon
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- art historian
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Andrew Michael Graham-Dixon is a British art historian, art critic, author and broadcaster. He is best known for his work as chief art critic at The Independent and The Telegraph newspapers, and for presenting numerous art documentaries for the BBC, as well as five series of Italy Unpacked - in which he explored the culture and cuisine of Italy with chef Giorgio Locatelli. Graham-Dixon currently lectures all over the world; hosts private art tours; writes for various journals; creates online content for his website and YouTube channel, and creates video and written content for Sotheby's. He is writing a book about the life and work of Vermeer, which is due to be published in 2025.
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Brian Sewell
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- autobiographerart criticwriterjournalistart historian
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Brian Alfred Christopher Bushell Sewell was an English art critic. He wrote for the Evening Standard and had an acerbic view of conceptual art and the Turner Prize. The Guardian described him as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic", while the Standard called him the "nation’s best art critic".
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Neil MacGregor
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- non-fiction writerart historianpodcaster
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Robert Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2015, and founding director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin until 2018.
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Jeremy Deller
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- filmmakervideo artistperformance artistartist
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Jeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller's work is collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. He won the Turner Prize in 2004 and represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013.
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Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan
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- anthropologistmanagerarchaeologist
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Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan is a princess of Jordan and a first cousin of King Abdullah II.
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Iain Sinclair
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- directorwriterdesignerediting staffcritic
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Iain Sinclair FRSL is a writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, recently within the influences of psychogeography.
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Robin Cormack
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- 1938-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- Byzantinistart historian
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Robin Sinclair Cormack, FSA is a British classicist and art historian, specialising in Byzantine art. He was Professor in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991–2004.
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Martin Kemp
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- authoropinion journalistuniversity teacherhistorianart historian
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Martin John Kemp FBA is a British art historian and exhibition curator who is one of the world's leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci. The author of many books on Leonardo, Kemp has also written about visualisation in art and science, particularly anatomy, natural sciences and optics. Instrumental in the controversial authentication of Salvator Mundi to Leonardo, Kemp has been vocal on attributions to Leonardo, including support of La Bella Principessa and opposition to the Isleworth Mona Lisa.
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Griselda Pollock
- Enrolled in the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- In 1972 graduated with Master of Arts
- In 1980 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterart historianart critic
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Griselda Frances Sinclair Pollock is a British art historian, whose work focuses on analyzing visual arts and visual culture through global feminist and postcolonial feminist lenses. Since 1977, Pollock has been an influential scholar of modern, avant-garde, postmodern, and contemporary art. She is a major influence in feminist theory, feminist art history, and gender studies. She is known for her feminist approach to art history, which aims to deconstruct the lack of appreciation and importance of women in art outside of being objects for the male gaze.
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Nicholas Serota
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- art historianexhibition curator
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Sir Nicholas Andrew Serota CH is a British art historian and curator. He has been chairman of Arts Council England since February 2017.
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Nancy Johnson
- Enrolled in the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- Studied in 1957-1958
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
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Nancy Elizabeth Johnson is an American lobbyist and politician from the state of Connecticut. Johnson was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing the 6th district and later the 5th District after reapportionment.
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Gabriele Finaldi
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- museologistart historiancurator
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Sir Gabriele Maria Finaldi is a British art historian and curator, with Italian citizenship. Since August 2015, he has been director of the National Gallery in London, England.
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Jonathan Foyle
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- architect
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Jonathan Foyle is a British architectural historian, broadcaster and advocate for heritage sites. He is also an artist.
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David White
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- politiciangenealogistKing of Arms
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David Vines White OStJ is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Since 2021, he has served as Garter Principal King of Arms.
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Olivier Berggruen
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- museologistart historiancurator
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Olivier Berggruen is a German-American art historian and curator, described by the Wall Street Journal as playing "a pivotal role in the art world."
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Tim Marlow
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- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- art historiantelevision presenter
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Timothy John Marlow OBE is a British writer, broadcaster and art historian who is the Director and Chief Executive of the Design Museum, London. Prior to this role, he was the Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He has lectured on art and culture in over 40 countries.
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Nicky Gavron
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- environmentalistpoliticiancouncil member
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Felicia Nicolette Gavron was a British politician who was deputy mayor of London under Ken Livingstone from 2000 to 2003 and 2004 to 2008. She was a member of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2021 and was the former Labour candidate for the 2004 London mayoral election.
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Noah Charney
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- writerart historiannovelist
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Noah Charney is an American art historian and novelist based in Slovenia. He is the author of The Art Thief, a mystery novel about a series of thefts from European museums and churches, and is the founder of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art.
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Charlie Casely-Hayford
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- fashion designer
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Charlie Casely-Hayford is a menswear designer based in London, England, where he was born. He founded the international menswear brand Casely-Hayford at the age of 22 with his father, the acclaimed British fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford OBE.
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Lavinia Greenlaw
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- writernovelistpoet
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Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Prize and Whitbread Poetry Prize. She was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award for A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde. Greenlaw currently holds the post of Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Frances Morris
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- curator
- Biography
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Frances Mary Morris CBE was the director of the Tate Modern from January 2016 to February 2023. She had succeeded Chris Dercon, and is succeeded by Karin Hindsbo. She remains the director emerita.
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Denis Mahon
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- art collectorart historian
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Sir John Denis Mahon, CH, CBE, FBA was a British collector and historian of Italian art. Considered to be one of the few art collectors who was also a respected scholar, he is generally credited, alongside Sacheverell Sitwell and Tancred Borenius, with bringing Italian pre-Baroque and Baroque painters to the attention of English-speaking audiences, reversing the critical aversion to their work that had prevailed from the time of John Ruskin.
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Amy Plum
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- writerchildren's writer
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Amy Plum is an American-born French young-adult fiction writer, best known for her Die for Me series.
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Roselee Goldberg
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- authorjournalisthistorianchoreographercurator
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RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, author, critic and curator of performance art. She is most well known as being the founder and director of Performa, a performance art organisation. She is also currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Arts Administration at New York University.
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Bernard Smith
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- academicuniversity teacherpainterhistorianart historian
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Bernard William Smith was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic, considered the founding father of Australian art history, and one of the country's most important thinkers. His book Place, Taste and Tradition: a Study of Australian Art Since 1788 is a key text in Australian art history, and influence on Robert Hughes. Smith was associated with the Communist Party of Australia, and after leaving the party remained a prominent left-wing intellectual and Marxist thinker. Following the death of his wife in 1989, he sold much of their art collection to establish the Kate Challis RAKA, one of the first prizes in the country for Indigenous artists and writers.
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David Elliott
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- art historianauthorcurator
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David Stuart Elliott is a British art gallery and museum curator and writer on modern and contemporary art. He is also a Contributing Editor of Ran Dian magazine.
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Alan Bowness
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- art criticart historian
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Sir Alan Bowness CBE was a British art historian, art critic, and museum director. He was the director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988.
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Anne Olivier Bell
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- university teacherpreservationisteditorart historian
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Anne Olivier Bell MBE was an English art scholar. She was part of the Bloomsbury Group and best known for editing the diaries of Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Monuments Men, she was responsible for the protection of cultural artefacts in Europe during the Second World War and earned the military rank of Major.
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Penelope Curtis
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- art historiancuratorexhibition curator
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Penelope Curtis is a British art historian and curator. Fom 2015 to 2020 she was the director of Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, and from 2010 to 2015 director of Tate Britain. She is the author of several monographs on sculpture and has written widely at the invitation of contemporary artists.
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James Austin
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- photographerarchitectural photographer
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James Austin is an Australian fine-art and architectural photographer.
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John Goodall
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- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Enrolled in the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- castellologist
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John Arthur Annesley Goodall FSA is an English historian, author, and Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine.
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Pamela Tudor-Craig
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- 1928-2017 (aged 89)
- Occupations
- art historianhistoriancurator
- Biography
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Dr Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood FSA was a British medieval art historian.
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Melvin Day
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- painter
- Biography
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Melvin Norman "Pat" Day CNZM was a New Zealand artist and art historian.
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Benedict Read
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- art historian
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Benedict William Read FSA was an English art historian. Usually known as Ben Read, he was the author of numerous books, essays and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century art history, and was one of the most authoritative writers in the second half of the twentieth century on British Victorian sculpture.
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Emily Tsingou
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- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- art dealer
- Biography
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Emily Tsingou is a private collection’s curator and adviser who lives in London, England. She is the former proprietor of Emily Tsingou Gallery which was open 1998 through 2007.
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Zahra Newby
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- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- professorhistorianclassical scholar
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Zahra Newby is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She is known in particular for her work on Greek mythology in Roman art and the visual culture of Greek festivals in the Roman east. Newby is currently the Senior Tutor in the Classics and Ancient History Department at the University of Warwick.
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Mark Jones
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- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- art historiannumismatist
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Sir Mark Ellis Powell Jones FSA FRSE is a British art historian, numismatist and museum director. He was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 2001 to 2011, and then master of St Cross College, Oxford from 2011 to 2016.
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Cecily Hennessy
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Cecily Jane Hennessy, FSA is the Academic Director of Christie's Education, London. She has promoted studies on the imagery of children and is an authority on the representation of children, adolescents and the family in Byzantium.
