NEWS: Professor David Freedberg is the new Director of the Warburg Institute, effective from July 2015.
Professor Freedberg is a highly distinguished scholar with an international career spanning more than forty years. He has taught at Columbia University since 1984 and is currently Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art as well as Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. His commitment to cross-disciplinary work in the sciences, anthropology and the arts was instrumental in the establishment of the Academy’s Neuroscience and Humanities project.
After studying classics at Yale University and gaining a DPhil from Oxford with his dissertation on Iconoclasm and Painting in the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1566–1609, the South African born academic worked at two University of London colleges, Westfield (now Queen Mary) and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has amassed a formidable array of academic honours and awards and is the author of numerous articles and several books including The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History and The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response.
You can leran more about Professor Freedberg and his research here.