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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Martin John Kemp is a British art historian and exhibition curator who is one of the world's leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci. The author of many books on Leonardo, Kemp has also written about visualisation in art and science, particularly anatomy, natural sciences and optics. Instrumental in the controversial authentication of Salvator Mundi to Leonardo, Kemp has been vocal on attributions to Leonardo, including support of La Bella Principessa and opposition of the Isleworth Mona Lisa.
Martin Kemp 's Published Works
Published Works
- The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (1991) (287)
- Science in culture (2001) (184)
- Changing student finances : income, expenditure and take-up of student loans among full- and part-time higher education students in 1998/9 (2000) (133)
- The science of art : Optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (1991) (124)
- Leonardo Da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man (1976) (97)
- From Mimesis to Fantasia: The Quattrocento Vocabulary of Creation, Inspiration and Genius in the Visual Arts (1977) (89)
- Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now (2000) (83)
- Seen/Unseen: Art, Science, and Intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope (2006) (62)
- Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science (2000) (62)
- Leonardo on Painting. (1990) (61)
- Style and non‐style in anatomical illustration: From Renaissance Humanism to Henry Gray (2010) (54)
- The Mona Lisa of modern science (2003) (45)
- Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (2011) (42)
- The Altarpiece in the Renaissance (1992) (41)
- Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci; With a Selection of Documents Relating to his Career as an Artist (1989) (38)
- The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration (1993) (32)
- 'Il Concetto dell'Anima' in Leonardo's Early Skull Studies (1971) (31)
- SCIENCE, NON‐SCIENCE AND NONSENSE: The Interpretation of Brunelleschi's Perspective (1978) (31)
- The Oxford history of western art (2000) (30)
- A drawing for the Fabrica; and some thoughts upon the Vesalius muscle-men. (1970) (28)
- Bringing Pictorial Space to Life: computer techniques for the analysis of paintings (2002) (27)
- Leonardo and the Visual Pyramid (1977) (25)
- Reflections of Reality in Jan van Eyck and Robert Campin (2004) (25)
- From science in art to the art of science (2005) (23)
- 2. Temples of the Body and Temples of the Cosmos: Vision and Visualization in the Vesalian and Copernican Revolutions (1996) (22)
- Dissection and Divinity in Leonardo's Late Anatomies (1972) (22)
- Combining work and welfare (1997) (22)
- Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance (1997) (20)
- The changing face of low pay in Britain (1996) (19)
- The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (2007) (18)
- A 10-year audit of burns at Kalafong Hospital. (2007) (17)
- Promoting the health and wellbeing of young Black men using community-based drama. (2006) (17)
- Taking it on trust: form and meaning in naturalistic representation (1990) (14)
- The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to SeuratPerspective as Symbolic Form (1994) (13)
- Doing What Comes Naturally: Morphogenesis and the Limits of the Genetic Code (1996) (12)
- Leonardo da Vinci’s laboratory: studies in flow (2019) (11)
- ‘Equal excellences’: Lomazzo and the explanation of individual style in the visual arts (1987) (11)
- Science in culture (2003) (11)
- Science in culture: Inventing an icon (2005) (11)
- Response to Correspondence on ‘Dehumanization, Guilt and Large Group Dynamics with Reference to the West, Israel and the Palestinians’ (2011) (11)
- Digital Art History: A subject in transition (2005) (10)
- Dissecting The Two Cultures (2009) (10)
- Hearts and minds: Agency and discourse on distress (2003) (9)
- Leonardo da Vinci and the search for order in neuroscience (2021) (8)
- Goldsworthy's genera (1998) (8)
- Kepler's cosmos (1998) (7)
- Seeing the smaller picture (2008) (7)
- Copley's Watson and the Shark (1980) (6)
- Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture (2009) (6)
- The physician's art: Representations of art and medicine (1999) (6)
- Dali's dimensions (1998) (6)
- Science in culture: Heaven in grains of sand (2007) (5)
- A Question of Trust: Old Issues and New Technologies (2014) (5)
- Haeckel's hierarchies (1998) (5)
- Science in culture: Trees of knowledge (2005) (5)
- Art history: No refraction in Leonardo's orb (2011) (5)
- SEEING AND SIGNS. E.H. GOMBRICH IN RETROSPECT (1984) (5)
- Federico da Montefeltro's palace at Gubbio and its studiolo (1999) (4)
- ‘Intellectual Ornaments’: Style, Function and society in Some Instruments of Art (1991) (4)
- Art history's window onto the mind (2009) (4)
- More than skin deep (2009) (4)
- Simon Stevin and Pieter Saenredam: A Study of Mathematics and Vision in Dutch Science and Art (1986) (4)
- Science in culture: peas without pictures--Gregor Mendel and the mathematical birth of modern genetics. (2002) (4)
- Gabo's geometry (1997) (4)
- The Impressionists' bible (2008) (4)
- Seduced: Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now (2007) (4)
- Piero's perspective (1997) (4)
- Acts of Seeing: Artists, Scientists and the History of the Visual: A Volume Dedicated to Martin Kemp (2009) (4)
- Gray's greyness (1998) (4)
- Collusion as a Defense against Guilt: Further Notes on the West's Relationship with Israel and the Palestinians (2015) (4)
- Art history: Sight and salvation (2011) (4)
- A boycott by passport. (2005) (3)
- Wright's ruptions (1998) (3)
- “The testimony of my own eyes”: The Strange Case of the Mammal with a Beak (2012) (3)
- Science in culture (2002) (3)
- Attractive attractors (1998) (3)
- Röntgen's rays (1998) (3)
- Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts (2019) (3)
- Science in Culture: A miracle in sight (2006) (3)
- Shelley's shocks (1998) (3)
- Science in Culture: Hearing colours, seeing sounds (2006) (3)
- Students studying in London : an analysis of data from the student income and expenditure survey 1998/99 : April 2002 (2002) (3)
- Mendeleev's matrix (1998) (3)
- Heezen's highlands (1998) (3)
- Science in culture: A trick of the tiles (2005) (2)
- Morale and Motivation of Dentists in the Salaried Primary Dental Care (2012) (2)
- Perspective and Meaning: Illusion, Allusion and Collusion (1987) (2)
- Looking at the face of the Earth (2008) (2)
- Looking at Leonardo's Last Supper (1990) (2)
- Kendrew constructs; Geis gazes (1998) (2)
- Science in culture (2005) (2)
- Late Leonardo: Problems and Implications (1987) (2)
- Hesse-Honegger's hand-work (1998) (2)
- Leonardo da Vinci. Anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (1985) (2)
- Editor's introduction to the special issue: Settler colonialism: The Palestinian/Israeli case (2020) (2)
- Turrell's tunnelling (1998) (2)
- Vision and Visualisation in the Illustration of Anatomy and Astronomy from Leonardo to Galileo (2000) (2)
- Culture: Artists in the lab (2011) (2)
- ‘A Chaos of Intelligence’: Leonardo’s Traité and the Perspective Wars at the Académie Royale (2017) (2)
- A Boycott By Passport (2002) (2)
- Callan's canyons (1997) (2)
- The Psychosocial Working Conditions and Work-related stress among Community Dentists in the UK Results from the 2014 Dentists' Well-being and Working Conditions surveys (2015) (2)
- Science in culture (2003) (2)
- De Vries's varieties (1998) (2)
- The psychoanalytic encounter with settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel (2020) (2)
- Johannes Kepler on Christmas (2009) (2)
- Pop artist displays primitive instincts (2009) (2)
- Palissy's philosophical pots (1997) (2)
- Slanted evidence (1999) (2)
- Audubon in action (1998) (1)
- Science in culture (2004) (1)
- GOD'S HOUSE, GEOMETRY'S HANDIWORK (1986) (1)
- Hooke's housefly (1998) (1)
- A flowering of pleasure and pain (2010) (1)
- Message from the heavens (2008) (1)
- Navis ecclesiae: An Ambrosian Metaphor in Leonardo's Allegory of the Nautical Wolf and Imperious Eagle (1981) (1)
- 11 “Here’s Looking at You”: The Cartoon for the So-called ‘Nude Mona Lisa’ (2016) (1)
- Derges's designs (1997) (1)
- China: A shared view of the heavens (2008) (1)
- Computer vision and painter's visions in Italian and Netherlandish art of the fifteenth century (2006) (1)
- A feverish imagination (2008) (1)
- Latham's life-forms (1998) (1)
- Kemp's conclusions (1998) (1)
- Boccioni's ballistics (1998) (1)
- Agency and discourse on distress (2004) (1)
- Bill's bands (1997) (1)
- Science in culture: The molecular landscape (2007) (1)
- Vesalius's veracity (1998) (1)
- Kroto and charisma (1998) (1)
- Poverty and contraception: Family Planning in the Western Cape (1984) (1)
- Intimations and intuitions (2006) (1)
- J-L. David and the Prelude to a Moral Victory for Sparta (1969) (1)
- Lisa's laws (1997) (1)
- La Bella Principessa and the Warsaw Sforziad (2011) (1)
- Hyde's horrors (1998) (1)
- Science in culture: Dying for a drink (2005) (1)
- Albers's abstracts (1997) (1)
- Talbot and the picturesque view: Henry, Caroline and Constance (1997) (1)
- Frémiet's frenzy (1998) (1)
- In and Out of Time: Is There Anything New under the Cyber-Sun? (2011) (1)
- Science in culture: Eggs and exegesis (2006) (1)
- Science in culture: The clever cone (2007) (1)
- The Taking and Use of Evidence; with a Botticellian Case Study (1984) (1)
- “Loving Insight”: D’Arcy Thompson's Aristotle and the Soul in Nature (2011) (1)
- Leonardo's philosophical anatomies (2019) (1)
- "Acting out": a qualitative evaluation of a mental health promotion project for young people (2003) (1)
- The ‘Guidelines for the Professional Practice of Art History’ Issued by the Association of Art Historians in Great Britain (1992) (1)
- Paolo Uccello’s “Rout of San Romano”: Order from Chaos (2005) (1)
- Science in culture (2003) (1)
- Mapping the cerebral globe (2008) (1)
- Max's modelling (1998) (1)
- A Dog's Life (2005) (1)
- Dutch church painters: Saenredam's Great Church at Haarlem in context : National Gallery of Scotland, 6 July-9 September 1984 (1984) (1)
- Russian science: A dog's life (2007) (1)
- Akeley's Africa (1998) (1)
- Proof positive in Sir John Herschel's concept of photography (2002) (1)
- Dürer's diagnoses (1998) (1)
- Science in culture: A sense of civic beauty (2006) (1)
- Science in culture: Womb with a view? (2005) (1)
- Erratum: Visible viruses (1998) (1)
- Science in culture (2004) (1)
- Noticing Nature (1998) (1)
- Sexy stamens and provocative pistils (1999) (1)
- Battered women and the law (1975) (1)
- Feynman's figurations (1998) (1)
- Science in culture (2002) (1)
- Review: The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton (2009) (1)
- The Fall of Kids Company (2015) (0)
- Science in culture: Leonardo lifts off. (2003) (0)
- Science in culture: Seeing the light (2006) (0)
- Merz's maths (1998) (0)
- Sculpture: The brain in a nutshell (2011) (0)
- It ain't easy being green: social action research to promote sustainable living among housing association residents (2009) (0)
- What Might Leonardo’s Own Trattato have Looked Like? And What did it Actually Look Like up to the Time of the Editio Princeps? (2017) (0)
- The Picture Vanishes (2019) (0)
- Epilogue: Martin Kemp (2019) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- ‘Nothing is hidden under the sun’ (2019) (0)
- The Calm Centre (2019) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- Gregor Mendel: the genius of genetics (2002) (0)
- Stubbs' seeing (1997) (0)
- Venus's voyeurs (1998) (0)
- In Memoriam: Adib Jarrar (2017) (0)
- A Historical Perspective Continuity, Change and Progress, as Viewed through Visual Imagery (2012) (0)
- "The Print," Oxford illustrated history of art (2000) (0)
- Wheatstone's waves (1998) (0)
- The Genius of Genetics: A Celebration of Gregor Mendel through Science and Art (2002) (0)
- Fresh formulae for portraiture (2009) (0)
- Icons of intellect (1998) (0)
- Science in culture: Stamping his authority (2006) (0)
- Science in culture: A sense of proportion (2007) (0)
- Stilled splashes (1998) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- Neutrinos: wonderful or crass? (2008) (0)
- ‘A Pitiable Sight’ (2019) (0)
- Spartan sport laid bare (2008) (0)
- Leonardo as he looked (1984) (0)
- Science in culture (2006) (0)
- MUTE SIGNS AND BLIND ALLEYS (1993) (0)
- Leonardo da Vinci as a Musician . Emmanuel Winternitz . (1983) (0)
- Betty Beaumont's Ocean Landmark is in deep water. (2004) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- A carver of figures (1994) (0)
- Science in culture (2003) (0)
- Journey into space (1999) (0)
- Graphic gropings (1998) (0)
- The Trinity St Michael: a late mediaeval sculpture discovered in the President's Garden, Trinity College, Oxford (2009) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- Science in culture (2006) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- Science in culture (2003) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- History of medicine: Ageing of plastic surgery (2007) (0)
- Science in culture: Surrealism bites back (2007) (0)
- Patronage, Some Copies, and Other Versions (2019) (0)
- Science in culture (2007) (0)
- Land use and agriculture (2010) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Beastly creations (1986) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Vermeer's vision (1998) (0)
- La Bella Principessa- who was the eponymous princess (2012) (0)
- Correction: Forced Smile (1999) (0)
- Science in Culture (2005) (0)
- Prospecting in the pictures (1993) (0)
- Laudable labs? (1998) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder: A Historical and Scientific Detective Story: Scientific Quest v. 2 (2011) (0)
- Science in culture: Form becomes feeling (2006) (0)
- Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds and Alain Touwaide (eds.), Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xx+278. ISBN 0-7546-5296-3. £55.00 (hardback). (2009) (0)
- Saenredam's shapes (1998) (0)
- Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture. A Handbook of Sources. By Phyllis Pray Bober and Ruth Rubenstein with contributions from Susan Woodford. 27.5×18 cm. Pp. 522, 526 ills. London and Oxford: Harvey Miller and Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-19-921029-2. £45.00. (1987) (0)
- ‘It ain't easy growing up in World War III’: countertransference complications in work with young people who have experienced domestic violence (2005) (0)
- The Theft, Recovery and Forensic Investigation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna of the Yarnwinder (2016) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Aristotle's Appeal to Nature and the Internal Point of View (2017) (0)
- Review: Leonardo da Vinci as a Musician by Emmanuel Winternitz (1983) (0)
- Lawrence M. Principe;, Lloyd DeWitt.Transmutations: Alchemy in Art: Selected Works from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. vii + 40 pp., illus. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2002. $25 (paper). (2003) (0)
- Science in culture (2004) (0)
- LEONARDO'S LEDA AND THE BELVEDERE RIVER‐GODS: Roman Sources and a New Chronology (1980) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Science in culture (2005) (0)
- Mammary models (1998) (0)
- The Discovery of a Masterpiece (2019) (0)
- Lane's landscapes (1998) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- The Science of Art: Visuality at a Disciplinary Crossroads: Introduction to Special Section (2022) (0)
- Science in culture: Gene expression (2007) (0)
- Merian's metamorphoses (1998) (0)
- Book Reviews (2011) (0)
- Science in culture (2004) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Ernst's ego (1998) (0)
- Modelled moons (1998) (0)
- Julesz's joyfulness (1998) (0)
- Science in Culture (2006) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- Science in culture (2004) (0)
- How lateral thinking saved lives (2010) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- ‘Christ in the Manner of God the Father’ (2019) (0)
- Monkey business (2010) (0)
- K. B. Roberts and J. D. W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. xx, 638, illus., £95 00 (019-261198-4). (1993) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Parker's pieces (1998) (0)
- Science in culture (2005) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Echoes of time in images of the Antarctic (2008) (0)
- Bronzino in Eleonora's chapel (1993) (0)
- Fabricate Vitae: the stuff of life: a perception of the human body seen through the eye of the contemporary artist. (2014) (0)
- Science in culture: A fluid definition of art (2004) (0)
- The Science of Art: Visuality at a Disciplinary Crossroads: Introduction to Special Section (2020) (0)
- An Investigation or the Intensity or Weathering or Soils developed rrom Glacial and Glacionuvial Deposits and their RelationShip 10 the Glacial History or Central and Eastern Nepal (0)
- After the Original: Hollar and Leonardo’s Salvator (2019) (0)
- Monge's maths, Hummel's highlights (1998) (0)
- Science in culture (2004) (0)
- Exhibition: Ancient orders of nature (2008) (0)
- Science in culture (2005) (0)
- "IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN" A REPORT OF A SOCIAL ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE LIVING AMONG HOUSING ASSOCIATION RESIDENTS (2009) (0)
- A boycott by passport. (2005) (0)
- Science in culture (2003) (0)
- Science in culture (2004) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- Science in culture (2003) (0)
- Science in culture (2007) (0)
- Moving in elevated circles (2010) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- Part II. Images (2019) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- The Leonine Man: from Metaphysics to MGM (2017) (0)
- STUDYING RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS: The historian and the connoisseur (1983) (0)
- Science in culture (2003) (0)
- Cartesian contrivances (1998) (0)
- Onwin's holistics (1998) (0)
- Science in culture: A modern megalith (2006) (0)
- How hairy was Esau (1999) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Science in culture (2003) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Curious effects created by reversal of colour (2001) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- Culture: Metallic music (2010) (0)
- Vincian Velcro (1998) (0)
- Tricks of the stage (2010) (0)
- Boys's bubbles (1999) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- ‘A Peece of Christ done by Leonardo’ and ‘A lords figure. in halfe.’ (2019) (0)
- Leonardo da Vinci. Anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle , (essays by C. Pedretti and K. Keele, catalogue by Keele and J. Roberts), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford, Blackwells, 1984, 4to, pp. 166, illus., £30.50. (1985) (0)
- Visible viruses (1998) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Abbott's absolutes (1998) (0)
- Scientific symbolism (2009) (0)
- Leonardo da Vinci : the mystery of the Madonna of the Yarnwinder (1992) (0)
- Portrait: Updating Hooke (2003) (0)
- Hew Lorimer: from spirit to stone (2006) (0)
- Science in culture (2004) (0)
- A clearer picture (2016) (0)
- Science in culture (2004) (0)
- Science in culture (2001) (0)
- Verifying La Bella Principessa- The Science Behind Her (2012) (0)
- The harmonious hand. Marin Mersenne and the science of memorized music. (2001) (0)
- Science in culture (2003) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- Science in culture (2003) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- Science in culture (2004) (0)
- Drawings and Dates (2019) (0)
- “First They Came for the Muslims”: Psychoanalytic reflections on the threat and the challenge of contemporary populism (2018) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Plastic visions in art and science (2005) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- Science in culture (2002) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- Science in culture (2000) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Science in culture (1999) (0)
- Turner's Trinity (1998) (0)
- Science in culture: naturally natural. Albrecht Dürer's studies of animals have a life of their own. (2002) (0)
- What’s it called and what’s it for? Towards an Etymology of Objects (1998) (0)
- Flashes of cosmic brilliance (2009) (0)
- Sculpture: Terrible wonder (2010) (0)
- Science in culture: Consulting nature's pattern-book (2007) (0)
- Science in culture: Prussian precision (2005) (0)
- Science in culture: A mechanical mind. (2003) (0)
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