John Pope-Hennessy

Pope-Hennessy at his desk. Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (13 December 1913 – 31 October 1994), was a British art historian. Pope-Hennessy was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1967 and 1973, and director of the British Museum between 1974 and 1976. He was a scholar of Italian Renaissance art. Many of his writings, including the tripartite ''Introduction to Italian Sculpture'', and his magnum opus, ''Donatello: Sculptor'', are regarded as classics in the field. Provided by Wikipedia

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