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He was trained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute, London. He was British Academy Wolfson Research Professor (1993-98). For more than 25 years he was based in Scotland (Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews, where he was Provost of St. Leonard's College). He has held visiting posts in Princeton, New York, North Carolina and Los Angeles.
He has curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo and art and science, including Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery in London. He was also guest curator for Ca 1492 at the National Gallery in Washington in 1992. He has served as a Trustee of National Galleries of Scotland, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum.
Professor Martin Kemp
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