Alexander Marr

Alexander Marr is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, where he is Dean of Discipline.

He specialises in European and British art and architecture ca. 1400–ca. 1800, especially their intellectual, literary, and scientific aspects. His awards include a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008), a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (2013), and a Paul Mellon Centre Senior Fellowship (2022). He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society in 2013.

He was the Founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Visual Culture (CVC), is a Trustee of the Walpole Society, and currently serves as President of the Leonardo da Vinci Society. His books include the monographs Rubens’s Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius (2021), Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2018), Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy (2011), and the edited volumes Ingenuity in the Making (2021), The Places of Early Modern Criticism (2021), Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (2006).

He is currently writing a monograph on Hans Holbein the Younger and ingenuity (Holbein’s Wit) and editing Richard Haydocke’s translation of Lomazzo’s Trattato for the MHRA.