Gabriele Finaldi
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Gabriele Maria Finaldi (born November 1965) is a British
art historian and curator. Since August 2015, he has been director of the National Gallery in London, England.[1]
Early life and education
Finaldi was born in Barnet and raised in Catford in south London, the son of a Neapolitan father and a half-Polish-half-English mother.[2] He was educated at
The Courtauld Institute of Art where he completed his doctorate in 1995 on the 17th-century Spanish Baroque painter Jusepe de Ribera.[3]
Career
Finaldi has curated exhibitions in the UK, Spain, Italy and Belgium and has written catalogues and scholarly articles on
Picasso.[4]
Finaldi was a
Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain.[5] At the Prado he oversaw the project to build a new extension in 2007, the creation of the Research Centre, and curated major exhibitions on Ribera (in 2011) and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (in 2012).[6]
In August 2015, Finaldi returned to the National Gallery having been appointed its director.[7]
References
- ^ "Gabriele Maria FINALDI personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
- TheGuardian.com. 27 April 2016.
- ^ Brown, Mark (18 August 2015), "National Gallery in London picks Prado deputy chief as new director", The Guardian, retrieved 18 March 2015
- ^ a b Director, National Gallery, retrieved 15 January 2016
- ^ Gabriele Finaldi announced as new Director of the National Gallery, National Gallery, 18 March 2015, retrieved 18 March 2015
- ^ Dorment, Richard (18 March 2015), "Gabriele Finaldi: the perfect man for the National job", The Telegraph, retrieved 18 March 2015
- ^ Gabriele Finaldi appointed head of National Gallery, BBC, 18 March 2015, retrieved 18 March 2015
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