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Professor Alexander Marr

BA MSt DPhil

Subject

History of Art

Fellow type

Staff Fellow

Email

ajm300@cam.ac.uk

Positions

Staff Fellow in History of Art; Dean of Discipline; Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art; Head of Department of History of Art

Biography

Alexander Marr is Professor of the History of Renaissance and Early Modern Art, and Head of the Department of History of Art.

He specializes in European art ca. 1450-ca. 1800, especially its intellectual and literary aspects in their social contexts. His most recent publication is Holbein’s Wit: Pictorial Ingenuity in Renaissance Art (2026).

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