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Courtauld Institute of Art

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The Courtauld Institute of Art, commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation. [1]

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Alixe Bovey

Alixe Bovey is a Canadian medieval art historian and head of research at the Courtauld Institute of Art, a college of the University of London.

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Anne, Princess Royal

Anne, Princess Royal, (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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Anthony Blunt

Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO, from 1956 to 1979, was a leading British art historian who in 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a Soviet spy.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

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Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham

Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham, (8 November 1868 – 21 July 1947) was an English soldier, diplomat, politician, philanthropist and patron of the arts.

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Aviva Burnstock

Dr.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Buddhist art

Buddhist art is the artistic practices that are influenced by Buddhism.

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Caroline Arscott

Caroline Arscott is a professor at the Courtauld Institute.

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Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage

The conservation-restoration of cultural heritage focuses on protection and care of tangible cultural heritage, including artworks, architecture, archaeology, and museum collections.

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Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Gallery is an art museum in Somerset House, on the Strand in central London.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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David Park (art historian)

David William Park (born 23 May 1952) is a Professor at the Courtauld Institute, London where he is the Director of the Conservation of Wall Painting Department.

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David Solkin

David Hersh Solkin, FBA (born Montreal, 16 March 1951) is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, which he joined in 1986.

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Deborah Swallow

Deborah Anne Swallow (born 27 August 1948) is a British museum curator and academic.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it.

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Eric Fernie

Eric Campbell Fernie (born 9 June 1939, Edinburgh) is a Scottish art historian.

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Ernst Vegelin

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History of art

The history of art focuses on objects made by humans in visual form for aesthetic purposes.

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Home House

Home House is a Georgian town house at 20 Portman Square, London.

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Illuminated manuscript

An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented with such decoration as initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations.

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Immediations

immediations is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal in the history of art, published by the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

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Impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

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James Cuno

James Bash Cuno (born April 4, 1951 in St Louis) is an American art historian and curator, who currently serves as President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust since 2011.

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Joanna Woodall

Joanna Woodall is an art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she is a specialist in portraiture and Netherlandish art.

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John Lowden

John Hopkins Lowden (born 1 May 1953) is a British art historian who is Professor of the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, which he joined in 1982.

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Julian Stallabrass

Julian Stallabrass is a British art historian, photographer and curator.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Business School

The London Business School (LBS) is a public business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington

William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (12 April 1856 – 19 April 1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Michael Kauffmann

Professor Emeritus Claus Michael Kauffmann (born 5 February 1931) was Director of the Courtauld Institute, London, from 1985-1995.

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Mignon Nixon

Mignon Nixon is an American academic.

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Mural

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface.

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Museo del Prado

The Prado Museum is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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National Gallery

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Peter Lasko

Peter Erik Lasko (5 March 1924 – 18 May 2003) was a British art historian, Director of the Courtauld Institute, London, from 1974 to 1985 and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Portman Square

Portman Square is a square in London, part of the Portman Estate.

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Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Public university

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

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Research Excellence Framework

The Research Excellence Framework is the successor to the Research Assessment Exercise.

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Robert Adam

Robert Adam (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.

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Robert Witt (art historian)

Sir Robert Clermont Witt (1872–1952) was a British art historian, who, along with Samuel Courtauld and Lord Lee of Fareham, was a co-founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Samuel Courtauld (art collector)

Samuel Courtauld (7 May 1876 – 1 December 1947) was an English industrialist who is best remembered as an art collector.

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Sarah Wilson (art historian)

Sarah Wilson is a Professor at the Courtauld Institute, London.

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Somerset House

Somerset House is a large Neoclassical building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge.

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Strand, London

Strand (or the Strand) is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Susie Nash

Susie Nash is the Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute, London.

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T. S. R. Boase

Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase, MC, FBA (1898–1974) was an art historian, university teacher, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Virtual learning environment

A virtual learning environment (VLE) in educational technology is a Web-based platform for the digital aspects of courses of study, usually within educational institutions.

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William Chambers (architect)

Sir William Chambers (23 February 1723 – 10 March 1796) was a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London.

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William George Constable

William George Constable (born Derby, England, 27 October 1887, died Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 February 1976, was an art historian and gallery director. He was the father of Medieval Historian Giles Constable.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art

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