Gabriele Maria Finaldi (born November 28, 1965) is a British art historian and curator, with Italian citizenship.[1] Since August 2015, he has been director of the National Gallery in London, England.[2]
Early life and education
editFinaldi was born in Barnet and raised in Catford in south London, the son of a Neapolitan father and a half-Polish-half-English mother.[3] He was educated at Dulwich College before studying art history at The Courtauld Institute of Art where he completed his doctorate in 1995 on the 17th-century Spanish Baroque painter Jusepe de Ribera.[4]
Career
editFinaldi has curated exhibitions in the UK, Spain, Italy and Belgium and has written catalogues and scholarly articles on Velázquez and Zurbarán, on Italian Baroque painting, on religious iconography, and on Picasso.[5]
Finaldi was a curator at the National Gallery between 1992 and 2002. He was responsible for the later Italian paintings in the collection (Caravaggio to Canaletto) and the Spanish collection (Bermejo to Goya).[5] In 2002 he was appointed Deputy Director for Collections and Research at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain.[6] At the Prado he oversaw the project to build a new extension in 2007, the creation of the Research Centre, and curated major exhibitions on Ribera (in 2011) and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (in 2012).[7]
In August 2015, Finaldi returned to the National Gallery having been appointed its director.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Granting of Italian citizenship to Gabriele Maria Finaldi personal".
- ^ "Gabriele Maria FINALDI personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
- ^ "The National Gallery's new boss: 'I can't deny I am strongly European'". TheGuardian.com. 27 April 2016.
- ^ Brown, Mark (18 August 2015), "National Gallery in London picks Prado deputy chief as new director", The Guardian, retrieved 18 March 2015
- ^ a b Director, National Gallery, archived from the original on 13 January 2016, retrieved 15 January 2016
- ^ Gabriele Finaldi announced as new Director of the National Gallery, National Gallery, 18 March 2015, archived from the original on 20 March 2015, retrieved 18 March 2015
- ^ Dorment, Richard (18 March 2015), "Gabriele Finaldi: the perfect man for the National job", The Telegraph, retrieved 18 March 2015
- ^ Gabriele Finaldi appointed head of National Gallery, BBC, 18 March 2015, retrieved 18 March 2015
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