Martin Kemp (art historian)

Martin John Kemp ( born March 5, 1942 in Windsor ), is a British art historian, author and professor emeritus of art history.

Martin Kemp is an expert in the work of Leonardo da Vinci. For his work on Leonardo and the art of the Italian Renaissance, he received the Armand Hammer Prize for Excellence Award in Leonardo Studies, the price of the American Italian Association, numerous other awards and honorary doctorates. Besides his work as an author, he also curated several major exhibitions Leonardo.

In addition to the art of the Renaissance a focus of his work is the connections between art and science. In 2009, his Neuzuschreibung attracted a drawing to Leonardo da Vinci stir. Kemp justified the attribution of the Bella Principessa, using forensic methods of investigation.

As a professor of art history Martin Kemp taught at the University of St Andrews, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford and had guest professorships, among others, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Getty Research Institute held in Los Angeles.

Writings (selection )

• Leonardo. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-280546-0. Translation: Leonardo. C. H. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53462-7.
• ( with Pascal Cotte ) Leonardo da Vinci " La Bella Principessa ": The profile portrait of a Milanese woman. Hodder & Stoughton, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-444-70626-0.