![]() He has curated exhibitions in Britain, Spain, Italy, Belgium and the US. Finaldi studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he completed his doctorate in 1995 on the seventeenth-century Spanish painter who worked in Italy Jusepe de Ribera. ![]() Prior to his role at the Prado, he was a curator at the National Gallery between 19, where he was responsible for the later Italian paintings in the collection (Caravaggio to Canaletto) and the Spanish collection (Bermejo to Goya). ![]() He was previously Deputy Director for Collections and Research at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, a position he took up in 2002. Gabriele Finaldi has been Director of the National Gallery since August 2015. The lectures are presented as free live webinars. This year’s series, entitled The Museum and Gallery Today, is exclusively online and features individual talks from some of the world’s most distinguished museum and gallery directors. Co-organised by the two institutions, these biennial lectures have traditionally been given by a specialist in British art, first at the National Gallery, London, and again at the YCBA in New Haven. Established in 1994, this lecture series was named in honour of Paul Mellon (Yale College, class of 1929), the philanthropist, collector of British art, and founder of both the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC). ![]()
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