Kenneth Clark
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 79
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was a British art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly associated with Italian Renaissance art, most of all that of Leonardo da Vinci.
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John Ruskin, whose writings inspired the young Clark
Leonardo da Vinci: Head of Leda, in the Royal Collection
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
One of four paintings by Andrea Previtali which Clark attributed to Giorgione in 1937
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After running two art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts from the 1950s to the 1970s, the largest and best known being the Civilisation series in 1969.
