Gabriele Finaldi

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gabriele Finaldi (* 1965 in London ) is a British art historian and museum director.

Life

Gabriele Finaldi comes from an Italian-British family. He attended Dulwich College and studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art , where he received his doctorate in 1995 on the Spanish baroque painter Jusepe de Ribera . Since 1992 he worked at the National Gallery in London, where he was in charge of Italian and Spanish painting. In 1995 he curated an exhibition of Spanish still lifes, and in 1997 he was responsible for the purchase of Francisco de Zurbarán's painting A Cup of Water and a Rose on a Silver Plate . In 1997 he curated an exhibition of Italian baroque paintings from the Denis Mahons collection . He edited the catalog for the exhibition Seeing Salvation by Neil MacGregor .

Francisco de Zurbarán: A cup of water and a rose on a silver plate

In 2002 Miguel Zugaza brought him to the Museo del Prado in Madrid as artistic director . There he was responsible for the continuation of the renovation work on the museum and, as a curator, oversaw several exhibitions and the exhibition catalogs that were written for them. Finaldi has published a large number of articles in professional journals.

In August 2015, Finaldi succeeds Nicholas Penny as Director of the National Gallery in London.

Exhibition catalogs, publications (selection)

  • The image of Philip IV of Spain . Master's thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1989
  • Aspects of the life and work of Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) . Dissertation, University of London, 1995
  • Discovering the Italian Baroque: The Denis Mahon Collection . London: National Gallery 1997
  • (Ed.), With Susanna Avery-Quash a. a .: The image of Christ . London: National Gallery 2000
  • with Amedeo de Franchis, Delfín Rodríguez, Massimo Listri: L'Ambasciata d'Italia in Spagna. La Embajada de Italia en España . FMR, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Jones: Let's hope Gabriele Finaldi brings some controversy to the National Gallery , in: The Guardian , March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015 (English).
  2. ↑ Mark Brown: National Gallery in London picks Prado deputy chief as new director , in: The Guardian , March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Finaldi, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH London