Ballot Archive

18 Feb 2021

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Piers Baker-Bates

Academic degrees, honours etc.

PhD Uni of Cambridge Chairman, Artes Iberian Visual Culture Group 2008-2010 Leverhulme Fellow Open University

Profession or occupation

Visiting Research Associate, The Open University

Grounds for election

Piers Baker-Bates has held Fellowships at a number of Institutions. Most recently he was an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at CASVA (National Gallery of Washington) in Autumn 2019. His book on Sebastiano del Piombo, Sebastiano del Piombo and the World of Spanish Rome, appeared in September 2016. He has also co-authored two edited volumes, The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Images of Iberia, with Dr Miles Pattenden, which was published in 2015, and ‘“Un nuovo modo di colorire in pietra”: Paintings on Stone and Material Innovation, with Dr Elena Calvillo, which was published in 2018. He further contributed an essay and entries to the catalogue of the National Gallery exhibition in London, Sebastiano del Piombo and Michelangelo in 2017 and the Uffizi exhibition, Spagna e Italia in Dialogo nell’Europa dell Cinquecento in 2018.

Signatories

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