John Pope-Hennessy (art historian)
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Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (1913 - 1994), a son of Major-General Ladislaus Pope-Hennessy and Dame Una Pope-Hennessy (née Birch), was a British art historian.
John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy served as the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1967 and 1973, and then as the director of the British Museum from 1974 until 1976.
Concerned that scholarship on Renaissance sculpture was lagging behind the study of painting of the same era, Pope-Hennessy wrote a number of reference books to raise the stature of the subject. Many of these, including the tripartite Introduction to Italian Sculpture and his magnum opus, Donatello: Sculptor, are now considered classics in the field.
| Preceded by Sir Trenchard Cox |
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1967–73 |
Succeeded by Sir Roy Strong |
| Preceded by Lord Wolfenden |
Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum 1974–76 |
Succeeded by Sir David Wilson |
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