Ballot Archive

10 Aug 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Luke Syson

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA (Hons) The Courtauld Institute, University of London

Profession or occupation

Museum Director

Grounds for election

Luke Syson is a distinguished art historian and museum director, appointed the 14th Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in 2019; in 2012-1019, he was chairman of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and led the refurbishment of the British Galleries (opened 2020); previously he was at the British Museum, as a curator in coins and medals and he co-created there the display 'Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century,' which opened in 2003. At the V&A in 2002-2003, he moved to be head of research & curator of Italian paintings before 1500, at the National Gallery; in 2011 he curated 'Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan'; he led successful campaign to acquire Raphael's 'Madonna of the Pinks' for the nation. He has also contributed to numerous publications including 'Pisanello: Painter to the Renaissance Court', 2001, co-written with Dillian Gordon, and 'Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body', 2018.

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