Nick Wilding

Nick Wilding is a British art historian. He became internationally known in connection with the alleged Galileo drawings which he exposed as fakes.

Life

Wilding studied English at New College (Oxford). After his B. A. with highest honors in 1992 he made in 1993 at the University of Warwick his Masters with a thesis on Renaissance. Subsequently, he conducted research at the European University Institute and in 2000 received his doctorate for PhD with a dissertation on natural philosophy and communication in early modern Europe.

He carried out postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and from 2002 to 2005 at the University of Cambridge. 2005/2006 Wilding research at Columbia University, 2006/2007 at the University of Miami, and since 2007 he teaches as an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University.

2012 could Wilding prove on the basis of forensic evidence collection that this to be a forgery at a surfaced in 2005 special edition of Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei, who was convicted by an international group of researchers led by the German art historian Horst Bredekamp for authentic, which had been brought by Marino Massimo De Caro in the U.S. antique trade.

Writings (selection )

  • Galileo 's idol: Gianfrancesco sagredo and the politics of knowledge. Univ Of Chicago Press, 2014
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