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History of Art
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Center for Visual Studies, University of Oxford
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Martin Kemp, British Academy Wolfson Professor (1993-8) and Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford, is one of the UK´s most distinguished art historians.
The central theme of my research has been the relationship between scientific models of nature and the theory and practice of art. Increasingly it has concerned issues of visualisation, modelling and representation in science and art. A major focus has been Leonardo da Vinci. The culmination of the optical researches is The Science of Art. The Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat,1990. Anatomical themes and related topics from natural history and the ‘hard’ sciences are explored in Visualizations: the ‘Nature’ Book of Science and Art and Spectacular Bodies. The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now (with Marina Wallace, Hayward Gallery, London, 200-1).
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Leonardo da Vinci. The Marvellous Works of Man and Nature, London, 1981 and 1989;
The Science of Art. Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, London and New Haven, 1989 and 1991;
With Jane Roberts, Leonardo da Vinci, exhibition and catalogue Hayward Gallewry, London, 1989;
Leonardo da Vinci, 1996, CD-ROM for Corbis, Seattle, overall consultant, general editor, part-author and part-presenter;
Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance, London and New Haven, 1997;
Imagine e Verità. Per una storia dei rapporti fra arte e scienza, Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1999;
with Marina Wallace, Spectacular Bodies. The Art and Science of the Human Body from the Renaissance to Now, book for exhibition at Hayward Gallery in London , University of California Press, 2000;
The Oxford History of Westerm Art, editor and part-author, Oxford, 2000;
Visualizations: the Nature Book of Art and Science (based on articles for Nature), Oxford University Press and University of California Press 2001;
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Iconic Turn
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Iconic Turn 
