Martin Kemp (art historian)
Martin Kemp | |
|---|---|
 MJ Kemp | |
| Born | 5 March 1942 |
| Known for | Leonardo da Vinci scholarship; Images in art and science |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Downing College Courtauld Institute of Art |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art history |
| Institutions | Department of History of Art, University of Oxford |
| Website | www |
Martin John Kemp FBA (born 5 March 1942) 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.[1][2] 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 of the Isleworth Mona Lisa.
Since 2008, he has been emeritus professor of art history at the University of Oxford, prior to which he was a professor of Art History there (1995–2008) and held posts at University of St Andrews (1981–1995) and University of Glasgow (1966–1981). He is an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, an honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge and a fellow of the British Academy.
Early life
In his youth, Kemp attended Windsor Grammar School.[3][a] From 1960 to 1963, Kemp studied natural sciences and art history at Downing College, Cambridge[b] and the history of Western Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London from 1963 to 1965.[4][5][6]
Career
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For more than 25 years he was based in Scotland where from 1966 to 1981 he was a lecturer at University of Glasgow and Professor of Fine Arts from 1981 to 1990 and Professor of the History and Theory of Art from 1990 to 1995 at University of St Andrews.[7][8] Kemp was Professor of Art History at the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008, during which he helped create the Centre for Visual Studies, which opened in 1999.[9] Notably, Edgar Wind had held this post from 1955 to 1967 and subsequently Francis Haskell from 1967 to 1995.[5] Since 2008 he has been emeritus professor of the art history there.[7] He has held various visiting professorship posts at institutions such as Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago and Harvard University.[7][5] Kemp received the prestigious British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship—An award offered by the Wolfson Foundation.[10]—and from 1993 to 1998 and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1991.[8] With art historian Marina Wallace, Kemp launched the "Universal Leonardo" website.[5]
Books
Kemp has written many books about Leonardo da Vinci, his first of which, Leonardo da Vinci. The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man in 1981, won the Mitchell Prize in art history for best first book.[11] He 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). He has written a regular column called 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. In 2011 he published his book Christ to Coke: How Image becomes Icon (OUP, 2011).[12][13]
Salvator Mundi
Kemp was a leading authority in researching the Salvator Mundi which supported its attribution to Leonardo da Vinci.[14]
La Bella Principessa
In 2010 he published a monograph together with French engineer Pascal Cotte, recounting the story of how a team of experts – under his guidance – pieced together the evidence for the extraordinary discovery of a major artwork by Leonardo, now named La Bella Principessa. The book, entitled La Bella Principessa (2010), narrates the steps Kemp and Cotte took in authenticating the painting. The 2012 Italian edition, La bella principessa di Leonardo da Vinci[15] produces evidence about its origins.[6]
Exhibitions
- Guest curator for Circa 1492 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1992.[citation needed]
- Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery, London (2001)[16]
- Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2006)[17][18]
- Seduced: Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now at the Barbican Art Gallery, London (2007)[19]
Selected bibliography
- Kemp, Martin (1990). The science of art : optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat. New Haven. ISBN 0-300-04337-6. OCLC 18832748.[20] Yale University Press, reprinted with revisions 1992.
- Kemp, Martin (1997). Behind the picture : art and evidence in the Italian Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07195-7. OCLC 37195363.[21]
- Kemp, Martin (2006). Leonardo Da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920778-7.
- Kemp, Martin (2006). Seen/unseen : art, science, and intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble telescope. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-929572-7. OCLC 69331733.[22]
- Kemp, Martin & Thereza Wells (2011).The Madonna of the yarnwinder - a scientific quest. Artakt & London: Zidane. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9554850-6-0. OCLC 267206478.[23]
- Kemp, Martin (2012). Christ to COKE : how image becomes icon. Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-161704-1. OCLC 763156933.[24]
- Kemp, Martin (2013). The Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford, 1691-94 : 'a beautifull magnifficent structure'. Tim Rawle. London. ISBN 978-1-85759-824-7. OCLC 834412864.[25]
- Kemp, Martin (2015). Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD. London: Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-78283-102-0. OCLC 905983684[26]
- Leonardo. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2004. ISBN 9780192805461. OCLC 55682608.
- Leonardo (Revised ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 2011 [2004]. ISBN 978-0199583355. OCLC 0199583358.
- Kemp, Martin (2016). Structural intuitions : seeing shapes in art and science. Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-3699-4. OCLC 936204711.[27]
- Kemp, Martin (2017). Mona Lisa : the people and the painting. Giuseppe Pallanti (First edition ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-874990-5. OCLC 966534826.[28]
- Kemp, Martin (2018). Living with Leonardo : fifty years of sanity and insanity in the art world and beyond. London. ISBN 978-0-500-23956-8. OCLC 1029249747.[29]
- Martin Kemp, Lucy Emma Victoria Russell. Vasari, Giorgio (2019). The life of Leonardo da Vinci. New York, New York. ISBN 978-0-500-23985-8. OCLC 1079261129.[30]
- Martin Kemp, Dalivalle, Margaret & Robert B Simon (2019). Leonardo's Salvator Mundi & the collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart courts. (First edition ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-254328-8. OCLC 1127668595[31]
- Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones. New York City, New York: Sterling. 2019. ISBN 978-1-4549-304-26. OCLC 1099590992.[32]
- Leonardo by Leonardo. New York City, New York: Callaway Arts & Entertainment. 2019. ISBN 9780935112825. OCLC 1083154267.[32]
- Leonardo, da Vinci (2019). Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester : a new edition. Domenico Laurenza, Martin Kemp (First edition ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-0-19-883287-4. OCLC 1108727522.[33]
- Kemp, Martin (2021). Visions of heaven : Dante and the art of divine light. London. ISBN 1-84822-467-2. OCLC 1183423539.[34]
Notes
- ^ Now known as The Windsor Boys' School
- ^ A constituent college of the University of Cambridge
References
- ^ Vogel, Carol (20 January 2003). "Renaissance Genius as Compulsive Draftsman; An Exhibition Explores Leonardo's Creative Process With a Wealth of Examples". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ Charney, Noah (6 November 2011). "The lost Leonardo". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ Lankford, Mike (17 August 2018). "The Keeper of the Keys Tells His Tale". lareviewofbooks.org. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Martin J Kemp: Curriculum Vitae". martinjkemp. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Honigman, Ana Finel. "Universal Leonardo". artnet. Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Professor Martin John Kemp". dow.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ a b c "Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art". ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ a b "Professor Martin Kemp FBA". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "Professor Martin Kemp". hoa.ox.ac.uk. University of Oxford. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "Wolfson Research Professorships". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ Kemp, Martin (1986). "Simon Stevin and Pieter Saenredam: A Study of Mathematics and Vision in Dutch Science and Art". The Art Bulletin. 68 (2). Taylor & Francis: 237–252. doi:10.1080/00043079.1986.10788336. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ "What makes an image an icon?". blog.oup.com. Oxford University Press. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ York, Peter (9 December 2011). "Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon, By Martin Kemp". The Independent. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ Kinsella, Eileen (12 June 2019). "Debunking This Picture Became Fashionable': Leonardo da Vinci Scholar Martin Kemp on What the Public Doesn't Get About 'Salvator Mundi". artnet. Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ Kemp, Martin J., and Cotte, Pascal (2012). La bella principessa di Leonardo da Vinci. Ritratto di Bianca Sforza. Firenze: Mandragora. ISBN 9788874611737
- ^ Conrad, Peter (21 October 2000). "Spectacular Bodies". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ "Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design". vam.ac.uk. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ Riding, Alan (5 October 2006). "Leonardo: A master of lateral thinking - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ Castle, Tim (11 October 2007). "London show strips bare 2,500 years of erotic art". Reuters. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ Kemp, Martin (1990). The science of art : optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat. New Haven. ISBN 0-300-04337-6. OCLC 18832748.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kemp, Martin (1997). Behind the picture : art and evidence in the Italian Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07195-7. OCLC 37195363.
- ^ Kemp, Martin (2006). Seen/unseen : art, science, and intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble telescope. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-929572-7. OCLC 69331733.
- ^ The Madonna of the yarnwinder - a scientific quest. Cristina Acidini Luchinat. London: Zidane. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9554850-6-0. OCLC 267206478.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Kemp, Martin (2012). Christ to COKE : how image becomes icon. Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-161704-1. OCLC 763156933.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kemp, Martin (2013). The Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford, 1691-94 : 'a beautifull magnifficent structure'. Tim Rawle. London. ISBN 978-1-85759-824-7. OCLC 834412864.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kemp, Martin (2015). Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD. London: Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-78283-102-0. OCLC 905983684.
- ^ Kemp, Martin (2016). Structural intuitions : seeing shapes in art and science. Charlottesville. ISBN 978-0-8139-3699-4. OCLC 936204711.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kemp, Martin (2017). Mona Lisa : the people and the painting. Giuseppe Pallanti (First ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-874990-5. OCLC 966534826.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kemp, Martin (2018). Living with Leonardo : fifty years of sanity and insanity in the art world and beyond. London. ISBN 978-0-500-23956-8. OCLC 1029249747.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Vasari, Giorgio (2019). The life of Leonardo da Vinci. Martin Kemp, Lucy Emma Victoria Russell. New York, New York. ISBN 978-0-500-23985-8. OCLC 1079261129.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Dalivalle, Margaret (2019). Leonardo's Salvator Mundi & the collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart courts. Martin Kemp, Robert Barry Simon (First ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-254328-8. OCLC 1127668595.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Christensen, Lauren (27 July 2019). "A da Vinci for Any Budget". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ Leonardo, da Vinci (2019). Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester : a new edition. Domenico Laurenza, Martin Kemp (First ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-0-19-883287-4. OCLC 1108727522.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kemp, Martin (2021). Visions of heaven : Dante and the art of divine light. London. ISBN 1-84822-467-2. OCLC 1183423539.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Further reading
- Grann, David (5 July 2010). "The Mark of a Masterpiece". The New Yorker. Condé Nast.
- White, Katie (28 April 2020). "The Art World Works From Home: Leonardo da Vinci Scholar Martin Kemp Is Thinking About Dante and Whipping Up Indian Food". Artnet.
External links
- Official website
- Martin Kemp at IMDb
- Martin Kemp's articles on The Guardian
- Mona Lisa and the Body of the Earth: A Lecture by Martin Kemp at The Laguna Art Museum (11.15.16) – Vimeo
- 2011 Science Gallery, Dublin[1]
- Laguna Museum[2]
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- Living with Leonardo [4]
- 2019 Gresham lecture [5]
- [6]
- Walter Isaacson [7]
- 2020 Leconfield Lecture [8]
- The Mona Lisa As An Icon | Martin Kemp - YouTube[9]
- Professor Martin Kemp, author of Christ to Coke, examines what makes an image an icon. [... Oxford Academic ...]
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- Martin Kemp on the Mona Lisa's Continuing Appeal - YouTube
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- Martin Kemp gives his talk 'Structures and Intuitions in Art and Science from Leonardo to now' in the Science ...
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- Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester: A New Edition - YouTube
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- Christ to Coke - Martin Kemp - Oxford University Press
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- Is The Swastika An Icon? | Martin Kemp - YouTube
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Animations from Art in History by Martin Kemp. Published by Profile Books. Art in History was available as an ebook with animations by Cognitive Media, the team behind RSA Animates until Amazon decided to stop supporting this platform. The works by Cognitive Media are shown collectively and individually below –
- The collective animations for Art in History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHxLBiPQlfg&t=101s
- Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsDAD1wopLU
- Colour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqUxJdYMDhg
- Greece to Mediaeval
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOiaEDrqVLQ
- Renaissance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHxLBiPQlfg
- Art Institutions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S1yN3omdlk
- Early 20th Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSi6GZ3jQ9Y
- British art historians
- Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art
- Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge
- Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford
- Living people
- 1942 births
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford
- Academics of the University of Glasgow
- Academics of the University of St Andrews
- Leonardo da Vinci scholars