In England, and everywhere else in the world of art, this tall guy slender French impeccable is a kind of legend : a scottish historian, honorary fellow at Oxford, ex-student in philosophy at Normale sup during May 68, editor-in-chief of the Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs ( ” the ” monthly british of reference for lovers of art, founded in 1903, and where worked a few modest feathers as the Onbahis writer Henry James, or the historian spy Anthony Blunt), director of the National Gallery from 1987 to 2002, and then at the British Museum until 2015, appointed member of the order of Merit of the p…
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