Martin Kemp
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Finger points to new da Vinci art...while carbon analysis of the artwork is consistent with such a dating. Da Vinci scholar Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, believes the teenager, shown in profile, could be Bianca Sforza,... In this article: Leonardo da Vinci, Vatican, Oxford University, Carbon, Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, Bianca Sforza, and Martin Kemp |
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | October 12, 2009
Leonardo da Vinci picture 'worth millions' revealed by a fingerprint
If verified as a genuine da Vinci it could be worth tens of millions of pounds. Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, thought that "by a process of elimination", the subject could be Bianca...
In this article: Leonardo da Vinci, Oxford University, Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, and Bianca Sforza
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CNN | October 13, 2009
Smudged fingerprint ID's da Vinci painting
...CEO of Lumiere Technology told CNN. Da Vinci scholar Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, was called to lend his expertise and also concluded it was a da Vinci. He has just finished writing a...
In this article: Leonardo da Vinci, Paris, and New York
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New York Post | October 14, 2009
'Money lisa' is found
...the real deal. Oxford University Professor Martin Kemp, once a skeptic, is now convinced the portrait was indeed drawn by Leonardo and the woman is Bianca Sforza, the teenage daughter of the Duke of Milan and his mistress. Kemp has renamed...
In this article: Leonardo da Vinci, Vatican, Oxford University, and Mona Lisa
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The Australian | October 12, 2009
Fingerprint uncovers Leonardo portrait
...book about the find (as yet unpublished). He said that his first reaction was that "it sounded too good to be true - after 40 years in the Leonardo business, I thought I'd seen it all". But gradually, "all the bits fell into place like...
In this article: Leonardo da Vinci, New York, Recession, Ermine, University of Oxford, and Jean Perreal
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International Herald Tribune - Culture | May 12, 2008
Checkmate again for Leonardo? Chess book's diagrams are linked to artist - International Herald Tribune
...be the work of Leonardo. But Martin Kemp, a prominent Leonardo expert who is an emeritus art history professor at Oxford University, has emphatically dismissed the possibility that Leonardo had any hand in the drawings. "There is not an earthly...
In this article: Leonardo da Vinci, Luca Pacioli, Chess, Mathematics, Mantua, and Milan
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Martin Kemp is Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. He speaks on issues of visualisation and lateral thinking to a wide range of audiences.
Leonardo da Vinci has been the subject of books written by him, including Leonardo (Oxford University Press 2004). His has published on imagery in the sciences of anatomy, natural history and optics, including The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale University Press).
Increasingly, he has focused on issues of visualization, modelling and representation. He writes a regular column on “Science in Culture” in Nature (an early selection published as Visualisations, OUP, 2000). The Nature essays are developed in Seen and Unseen (OUP 2006), in which his concept of “structural intuitions” is explored. His most recent book is The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Chicago).
He was trained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He was British Academy Wolfson Research Professor (1993-98). For more than 25 years he was based in Scotland (Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews. He has held visiting posts in Princeton, New York, North Carolina, Los Angeles and Montreal.
He has curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo and other themes, including Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery in London, Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2006 and Seduced: Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2007. He was also guest curator for Circa 1492 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1992.
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