Ronald Lightbown (1932–2021) was a noted British art historian and curator, specializing in Renaissance art. He wrote large monographs on the painters

Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli (, ), was an Italian Renaissance painting, Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th cent ...

and

Carlo Crivelli Carlo Crivelli (Venice, c. 1430 – Ascoli Piceno, c. 1495) was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini ...

. After a degree from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, between 1958 and his retirement in 1989 he worked at the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

in London, rising to be the Keeper of its library and then as Keeper of Metalwork.

Selected publications

* Lightbown, R. W. (2004). Carlo Crivelli. Yale University Press. * Lightbown, R. W. (1978). Sandro Botticelli. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California PressWilkins, D. G. (1980). eview of Sandro Botticelli., by R. Lightbown Renaissance Quarterly, 33(1), 100–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/2861554

References

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