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Martin Clayton, LVO, FSA, (born 1967) is Head of Prints and Drawings for

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at Windsor Castle. He is a specialist in the drawings of

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...

Early life

Martin Clayton was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire on 30 December 1967 to David and Brenda Clayton. He was educated at King James's School, Knaresborough, and from 1986 to 1990 at Christ's College, University of Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences and History of Art, graduating with a first. He credits his interest in art to a school trip to the

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in St Petersburg where he was fascinated by the chisel marks on a sculpture there.

Career

After graduating, Clayton began to work in the Print Room of the Royal Library,

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, as Assistant Curator, subsequently becoming Deputy Curator, Senior Curator, and (in 2013, on the retirement of

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) Head of Prints and Drawings. He has curated many exhibitions in the UK and internationally based on material in the royal collection and written the corresponding catalogues. He is a specialist in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Clayton is the editor of the natural history volumes of the ''

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'' of the ''Paper Museum'' of

Cassiano dal Pozzo Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588 – 22 October 1657) was an Italian scholar and patron of arts. The secretary of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, he was an antiquary in the classicizing circle of Rome, and a long-term friend and patron of Nicolas Poussin, w ...

, the major part of which is held in the Royal Library at Windsor. He also co-wrote the volume on Cassiano's ''Aztec Herbal'' with

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and

Alejandro de Ávila Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander. Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Aleksander ( Czech, Polish), Alexandre (French), Alexandros (Greek), Alsander ( Irish), Alessandro (Italian), Aleksandr ( ...

.Flora: The Aztec Herbal.
Brepols Publishers. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

Honours

Clayton was made a

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(LVO) in the 2015 New Year's honours list.

Selected publications

*''Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man''. Bulfinch Press, 1992 (with Ron Philo) *''Poussin: Works on Paper. Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle''. Merrell Holberton, London, 1995. *''Leonardo da Vinci: A Curious Vision. Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle''. Merrell Holberton, London, 1996. *''Raphael and his circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle''. Royal Collection, 1999. *''Leonardo da Vinci: The Divine and the Grotesque''. Royal Collection, 2002. *''Holbein to Hockney: Drawings from the Royal Collection''. Royal Collection, 2004. *''Canaletto in Venice''. Royal Collection, 2005. *''The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: Renaissance and Baroque''. Royal Collection, 2007. (With Lucy Whitaker) *''The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Flora: The Aztec Herbal''. 2009. (With Luigi Guerrini and Alejandro de Ávila) *''Leonardo da Vinci. The Mechanics of Man''. Royal Collection Trust, 2010 (with Ron Philo) *''Leonardo da Vinci. Anatomist''. Royal Collection Trust, 2012 (with Ron Philo) *''Castiglione: Lost Genius''. Royal Collection Trust, 2013. (With Timothy J. Standring)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clayton, Martin 1967 births Living people British art historians British curators Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Members of the Royal Victorian Order