Professional

  • LinkedIn – For an overview of my career to date and my current projects.
  • The British Museum – I am currently the Smirnov Family Curator of Italian and French Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Click here to find out more about the Prints & Drawings department and the Museum’s remarkable collections.
  • Twitter – My professional Twitter account.
  • Christie’s – Until October 2014, I was a Specialist in Old Master Drawings at Christie’s, King Street. Click here to find out more about that department.

Other Links

  • BBC Radio 4, In Our Time: The Sistine Chapel, first broadcast 31 March 2022: I join Melvyn Bragg, Catherine Fletcher of Manchester Metropolitan University, and Matthias Wivel of the National Gallery for a discussion of Michelangelo’s masterpiece.
  • BBC Radio 4, The Five Faces of Leonardo, first broadcast 1 May 2019: a brief contribution in which I discuss Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of a tank in the British Museum and consider his influence on military technology.
  • National Gallery YouTube channel, Mantegna’s drawing Virtus Combusta, uploaded in 2018: a short video in which I explore the context and symbolism of one of Mantegna’s most enigmatic drawings.
  • The Times, 14 May 2017, Cavalli’s Hipermestra is brought back to life [paywall]: I chat to the journalist David Jays about the British Museum’s costume designs by Stefano della Bella for an opera first performed in Florence in 1658, and produced at Glyndebourne in 2017. I have been teased ever since for being described as ‘irrepressible’.
  • Italy in the Renaissance: my catalogue essay for the exhibition Italian Renaissance Drawings, for which I was curator, held at Suzhou Museum in China between October 2016 and January 2017.
  • My final project at Christie’s was the cataloguing of the Van Regteren Altena Collection. The first sale took place on 10 July 2014 and you can see the online catalogue here. The collection included a superb group of Dutch and Flemish drawings largely from the 16th-18th centuries, with highlights by Rubens, Goltzius and Jacob de Gheyn II. It was an excellent introduction to the field and a huge privilege to end my Christie’s career on such a high.