Martin John Kemp

Martin Kemp is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at the University of Oxford. He was trained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute, London. His central interests are in imagery in at and science. His books include, The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale), The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Chicago), and  Christ to Coke. How image becomes icon (Oxford). He has published and broadcast extensively on Leonardo da Vinci, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci. The marvellous works of nature and man  and Leonardo (both Oxford). The essays he wrote for Nature have been published as Visualisations and developed in Seen and Unseen (both Oxford).  His most recent book is Structural Intuitions (Virginia). He has been a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland, The Victoria and Albert Museum and British Museum. He has curated and co-curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo and other themes, including Ca 1492, Washington, Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery in London, Leonardo da Vinci. Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2006 and Seduced. Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now, Barbican Art Gallery London, 2007.